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13,691,679 | 13,691,308 | 1 | 3 | 13,690,732 | train | <story><title>Windows 10 Virtual Desktop Enhancer</title><url>https://github.com/sdias/win-10-virtual-desktop-enhancer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Ciantic</author><text>I happen to have written the DLL this app uses, and boy collecting that information can be time consuming. It&#x27;s mind-boggling how Microsoft still can&#x27;t come up simple APIs for their new features.<p>Most annoying part for me with Windows 10&#x27;s virtual desktops is simple thing: flashing task bar buttons appear on all desktops! It drove me nuts, every time I was focusing on some other desktop, some annoying program flashed it&#x27;s button and it appeared on the desktop I was using.<p>I happen to have written a in-memory patch for explorer.exe to disable flashing task bar buttons all together. AHK script also: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Ciantic&#x2F;DisableFlashingTaskbarButtons" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Ciantic&#x2F;DisableFlashingTaskbarButtons</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Windows 10 Virtual Desktop Enhancer</title><url>https://github.com/sdias/win-10-virtual-desktop-enhancer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joezydeco</author><text>Got excited for a minute when I saw &quot;Virual Desktop&quot; on Win10 and then saw it changes nothing about the desktops themselves.<p>Unless I&#x27;m totally missing something, is there a way to make Win10 believe the desktop size is larger than the video screen size? With or without device resolution indepdence, I don&#x27;t care. Let it scroll or something.<p>It&#x27;s just really sucky when I&#x27;m trying to debug an application that expects a large monitor (ala 1280x960 or something) and my laptop only has 1366x768. Qt <i>literally</i> says &quot;screw it, I&#x27;m clipping your window&quot; in these cases.</text></comment> |
30,640,191 | 30,640,196 | 1 | 3 | 30,639,115 | train | <story><title>Climate change won’t wait for future innovation – we need action now</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00560-2</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thatcherc</author><text>The main action advocated by the author here is to increase efficiency (in insulation, appliances, food production, transportation) as a means to curb CO2 emissions and slow climate change - all very important. Lately I&#x27;ve been reading Saul Griffith&#x27;s book &quot;Electrify&quot; which proposes a different tack - &quot;simply&quot; electrify all energy usage and let people maintain their current lifestyles exactly. Interestingly, doing so would <i>reduce</i> total US energy consumption[0] to about half its current levels while still allowing big trucks and air conditioning and fun energy-intensive things. A lot of that energy reduction comes from a) the higher intrinsic efficiencies of electrical machines and generation compared to heat engines and b) no longer needing energy to run fossil fuel exploration, extraction, and refining processes.<p>Griffith is also careful to note that climate solutions are &quot;yes ands&quot;, so we should increase efficiencies as much as we can in addition to electrifying as much as we can (and also pursuing ambitious strategies like fusion and CCS). Definitely make a great case of rolling out existing solutions like solar and wind in a big way to bring down carbon emissions really quickly.<p>[0] - the book focuses only on the US, but results could be similar in countries with similar economies.</text></comment> | <story><title>Climate change won’t wait for future innovation – we need action now</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00560-2</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>giorgioz</author><text>Yes there are a lot of ways to reduced emissions. We should also do now the ones that are already available right now (like home insulation).<p>On the same line though decommissioning nuclear plants in Europe was always a bad move.
Italy abandoned nuclear with a referendum 1987 just after Chernobyll and again voted against nuclear in 2011.
Italy then buys nuclear energy from France and gas from Russia. This is just putting the head in sand and moving the problems out of sight.
Germany is&#x2F;was about to make the same mistake.
Nuclear is a far from perfect solution available now which is beeing replaced for the hope of a much better solution much later on. We are not sure we&#x27;ll get the much better solutions down the line. We should make all the green(ish) bets we can.</text></comment> |
11,903,659 | 11,903,690 | 1 | 2 | 11,886,795 | train | <story><title>In poor neighborhoods, McDonald’s have become de-facto community centers</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/08/mcdonalds-community-centers-us-physical-social-networks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smokey_the_bear</author><text>McDonalds is the only restaurant I enjoy eating at with my 2 and 3 year olds. Every other restaurant is a slog to get through the meal. Honestly I&#x27;d eat there more often if it weren&#x27;t for the social stigma of it. (I live in Berkeley).<p>I am pretty sure the cheeseburger, apple slices, and chocolate milk are not much worse, and probably better, than the typical fare on a slapped together kids meal.<p>When I was a kid, my dad would take me to the local McDonalds to do math, several times a week. They&#x27;d let us sit there ordering nothing but sodas in a comfy booth for hours. These are some of my fondest childhood memories.<p>There are some issues with McDonalds, but it is a pleasant user experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stcredzero</author><text>People finding community of some form is not just a good thing, it&#x27;s an essential thing to human life. It should always be lauded. However, there is a lot of socioeconomic and sub-cultural in-group&#x2F;out-group judgement in US society, all of which feels absolutely justified by those doing the judging.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;4&#x2F;21&#x2F;11451378&#x2F;smug-american-liberalism" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;4&#x2F;21&#x2F;11451378&#x2F;smug-american-liberali...</a><p>In reality, it&#x27;s all exactly the same sort of crap that was portrayed on Mad Men. Such prejudice is the same, whether it is enacted by tweed jacket wearing Ivy Leaguers, rural low-brow native americans, &quot;poor white trash,&quot; urban black people, affluent Koreans, undergraduate students, &quot;Social Justice Warriors,&quot; or Bay Area programmers. I should know, because I&#x27;ve been on the receiving end of it from all of the above, while also being a member of about half those groups. (Often having diametrically opposed things projected onto me!)<p>When it comes down to it, people should be given a chance as individuals, not summarily judged as units of a group. (Martin Luther King Jr. put it best...)<p>I swear, when I hear some fellow &quot;liberals&quot; talking about their own rural underclass or Republicans or Christians, the kind of disdain that comes across seems like something that should no longer exist in the 21st century, outside of movies about the Jim Crow south.</text></comment> | <story><title>In poor neighborhoods, McDonald’s have become de-facto community centers</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/08/mcdonalds-community-centers-us-physical-social-networks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smokey_the_bear</author><text>McDonalds is the only restaurant I enjoy eating at with my 2 and 3 year olds. Every other restaurant is a slog to get through the meal. Honestly I&#x27;d eat there more often if it weren&#x27;t for the social stigma of it. (I live in Berkeley).<p>I am pretty sure the cheeseburger, apple slices, and chocolate milk are not much worse, and probably better, than the typical fare on a slapped together kids meal.<p>When I was a kid, my dad would take me to the local McDonalds to do math, several times a week. They&#x27;d let us sit there ordering nothing but sodas in a comfy booth for hours. These are some of my fondest childhood memories.<p>There are some issues with McDonalds, but it is a pleasant user experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tompetry</author><text>&gt; When I was a kid, my dad would take me to the local McDonalds to do math, several times a week. They&#x27;d let us sit there ordering nothing but sodas in a comfy booth for hours. These are some of my fondest childhood memories.<p>This made me smile, as my dad and I did the exact same thing. He would get coffee and I would get eggs and hashbrowns before we set out on the days errands, and I remember doing long division problems with crayons for fun. I hadn&#x27;t thought of those days in a very long time, thank you :)</text></comment> |
3,391,797 | 3,389,493 | 1 | 3 | 3,389,283 | train | <story><title>While we are focusing on SOPA, we are being distracted from the Protect IP Act</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/np5ee/while_we_are_focusing_on_sopa_we_are_being/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rbanffy</author><text>Today I had an idea that's so simple it could be useful.<p>We can send a message to the US legislative that things like SOPA, PIPA and the more shady provisions of the NDAA are a step too far. While they will laugh at our numbers, we can promise to volunteer our technical skills and resources to the politicians who vote against laws like that and deny access to the same resources to those who vote for them.<p>Our community is not large and writing our representatives telling them they lost our vote does not carry enough weight (and it's probably the same everywhere) but we carry mighty claws and teeth in form of our skills and resources.<p>Any ideas on how to do it?<p>Note: I live in Brazil and one could say such things have no direct impact on my life, but bad ideas and bad legislation are contagious. The same lobbies that work in the US are busy at work everywhere. We cannot afford to concede them a victory like this.</text></comment> | <story><title>While we are focusing on SOPA, we are being distracted from the Protect IP Act</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/np5ee/while_we_are_focusing_on_sopa_we_are_being/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>russell</author><text>I thought these were essentially the same bill; killing it in one house killed it. The depth of the analysis of the two bills in Wikipedia is so different that I cant tell. It appears that whether Protect IP is voted on is up to Harry Reid, but I find Senate rules nearly impenetrable. Enlightenment would be welcome..</text></comment> |
41,067,552 | 41,067,530 | 1 | 2 | 41,066,984 | train | <story><title>Switzerland Makes Open Source Software Mandatory for Public Sector</title><url>https://news.itsfoss.com/switzerland-open-source/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kenjackson</author><text>The biggest con is IMO the most obvious one. What if a third party non-open source product does something that FOSS can’t do or is dramatically behind on?<p>And are companies going really source local maintainers for FOSS versus the standard maintainer? Eg, is Switzerland really not going to use Canonical for supporting Ubuntu because it is British?</text></item><item><author>Rinzler89</author><text>Should be an EU wide mandate at this point, as it&#x27;s mostly pros with little cons.<p>Since the options are 1), keep spending EU taxpayer money to boost Microsoft&#x27;s and other US big-tech market cap, or 2), spend EU taxpayer money on FOSS and local companies implementing and maintaining that FOSS for local infrastructure, then the correct choice seems obvious to me.<p>The only cons are the short term costs, teething issues and pains of the transition, but that&#x27;s outweigh by the long term pros once that hill is crossed, the biggest which is tech sovereignty and independence form major tech firms under Uncle Sam&#x27;s control, and the taxpayer money going to local companies and jobs instead of US.<p>Ironically, Russia was unaffected by the Crowdstrike incident since they&#x27;re under sanctions and can&#x27;t use it, and IIRC they also started switching to Linux for their infrastructure after the war, so maybe it&#x27;s an interesting case study.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jraph</author><text>&gt; What if a third party non-open source product does something that FOSS can’t do or is dramatically behind on?<p>That&#x27;s almost the best side effect: in a place where open source is mandatory, they will have to fund the missing features and it will be available to everyone, once and for all. If everyone does that, we rapidly get great software, sharing the costs, very efficiently, and it&#x27;s all open source.<p>The alternative being everyone paying their own little license on their side ad vitam eternam.</text></comment> | <story><title>Switzerland Makes Open Source Software Mandatory for Public Sector</title><url>https://news.itsfoss.com/switzerland-open-source/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kenjackson</author><text>The biggest con is IMO the most obvious one. What if a third party non-open source product does something that FOSS can’t do or is dramatically behind on?<p>And are companies going really source local maintainers for FOSS versus the standard maintainer? Eg, is Switzerland really not going to use Canonical for supporting Ubuntu because it is British?</text></item><item><author>Rinzler89</author><text>Should be an EU wide mandate at this point, as it&#x27;s mostly pros with little cons.<p>Since the options are 1), keep spending EU taxpayer money to boost Microsoft&#x27;s and other US big-tech market cap, or 2), spend EU taxpayer money on FOSS and local companies implementing and maintaining that FOSS for local infrastructure, then the correct choice seems obvious to me.<p>The only cons are the short term costs, teething issues and pains of the transition, but that&#x27;s outweigh by the long term pros once that hill is crossed, the biggest which is tech sovereignty and independence form major tech firms under Uncle Sam&#x27;s control, and the taxpayer money going to local companies and jobs instead of US.<p>Ironically, Russia was unaffected by the Crowdstrike incident since they&#x27;re under sanctions and can&#x27;t use it, and IIRC they also started switching to Linux for their infrastructure after the war, so maybe it&#x27;s an interesting case study.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>InitialLastName</author><text>Reading the blog linked in TFA, in this case the requirement applies just to software developed by the Swiss government (or on their behalf by a contractor), not to all software in general.</text></comment> |
9,800,105 | 9,799,692 | 1 | 3 | 9,798,177 | train | <story><title>React.js koans</title><url>https://github.com/arkency/reactjs_koans</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>iopq</author><text>I was expecting something about a monk who had to report to two masters at the same time; but as he reported, the state changed, so they were never synced.<p>These are not the koans I was looking for.</text></comment> | <story><title>React.js koans</title><url>https://github.com/arkency/reactjs_koans</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rossta</author><text>I haven&#x27;t had a chance to try React.js koans yet, but recently completed a tutorial in the same vein, a &quot;workershopper&quot;, from nodeschool.io: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tako-black&#x2F;learnyoureact" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tako-black&#x2F;learnyoureact</a>. As a React.js noob, I found it to be a helpful introduction.</text></comment> |
18,598,028 | 18,597,653 | 1 | 2 | 18,595,247 | train | <story><title>YouTube top earners: A seven-year-old making $22M</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46427910</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anonymous5133</author><text>My GF is an elementary school teacher and she says the amount of kids who are developing anti-social behaviors is increasing pretty rapidly. Kids these days have computers and are basically simply &quot;escaping&quot; to the internet to live in a fantasy world that is disconnected from reality. Some even display active addictions to computer games, like minecraft, while others say they only have friends online in the games or with these youtube personalities like you say. These kids literally do not know how to make friends or interact with other kids because they are so used to just sitting in front of a game or computer basically having a &quot;friend&quot; entertain them with only one-direction of interaction. They think this is normal relationship for a friend. They don&#x27;t understand that in the real world in order to get friends you need to talk to other kids and interact with them. They literally do not know how to do this because they&#x27;ve learned it is not necessary...<p>Parents need to take it very seriously and limit the amount of time the child uses the computer...otherwise these behaviors continue into adulthood. If you are socially incompetent then it will hold you back in terms of jobs and so on. Very troublesome is that parents are basically using computers to babysit the kids or to keep them occupied...which only helps to reinforce the lack of social skills they get. How many times do you see a kid in a shopping cart holding a tablet watching some movie or whatever? Very common.</text></item><item><author>TravHatesMe</author><text>What I find interesting is that many of these youtubers have created personas to appeal to their audience, like true entertainers. However loyal viewers are fooled into this false sense of reality, where they are friends with content creator and this is not a persona at all, he&#x27;s my friend. Over time, the content creator and the audience share so many moments together, it becomes an emotional bond and a substitute for people&#x27;s social needs. People grow attached to this persona, sometimes obsessively. I think it could create of a scary pattern of disassociation, has it already?<p>Another thought: If the content creator chooses to optimize the money-making persona, it eventually leads to sensationalized content to generate the maximum possible number of views. I think there is some sadness in that: no matter what form of art, so much of it is influenced (disrupted?) by money -- it almost seems inevitable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>closeparen</author><text>I grew up during the transition.<p>Before I had regular access to technology I spent most of my after-school and recess time staring off into space, pacing around constructing imaginary worlds, and reading YA fiction. I had no interest in my peers, and no idea how to connect with them, years before I ever touched a computer. When I finally did get into the internet, and programming, it was manna from heaven. Now I get to be a productive member of society, staring off into space at my desk and constructing imaginary worlds in the form of software systems for important business purposes. If it weren&#x27;t for that, I might have wasted away, disintegrated, completely detached from the normal human world.<p>I dunno. Just because a child has no social life and a lot of screen time, doesn&#x27;t mean the causality works as you propose. Some of us have a tighter grip on the world of things than the world of people. (It&#x27;s definitely become more balanced for me, with time).</text></comment> | <story><title>YouTube top earners: A seven-year-old making $22M</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46427910</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anonymous5133</author><text>My GF is an elementary school teacher and she says the amount of kids who are developing anti-social behaviors is increasing pretty rapidly. Kids these days have computers and are basically simply &quot;escaping&quot; to the internet to live in a fantasy world that is disconnected from reality. Some even display active addictions to computer games, like minecraft, while others say they only have friends online in the games or with these youtube personalities like you say. These kids literally do not know how to make friends or interact with other kids because they are so used to just sitting in front of a game or computer basically having a &quot;friend&quot; entertain them with only one-direction of interaction. They think this is normal relationship for a friend. They don&#x27;t understand that in the real world in order to get friends you need to talk to other kids and interact with them. They literally do not know how to do this because they&#x27;ve learned it is not necessary...<p>Parents need to take it very seriously and limit the amount of time the child uses the computer...otherwise these behaviors continue into adulthood. If you are socially incompetent then it will hold you back in terms of jobs and so on. Very troublesome is that parents are basically using computers to babysit the kids or to keep them occupied...which only helps to reinforce the lack of social skills they get. How many times do you see a kid in a shopping cart holding a tablet watching some movie or whatever? Very common.</text></item><item><author>TravHatesMe</author><text>What I find interesting is that many of these youtubers have created personas to appeal to their audience, like true entertainers. However loyal viewers are fooled into this false sense of reality, where they are friends with content creator and this is not a persona at all, he&#x27;s my friend. Over time, the content creator and the audience share so many moments together, it becomes an emotional bond and a substitute for people&#x27;s social needs. People grow attached to this persona, sometimes obsessively. I think it could create of a scary pattern of disassociation, has it already?<p>Another thought: If the content creator chooses to optimize the money-making persona, it eventually leads to sensationalized content to generate the maximum possible number of views. I think there is some sadness in that: no matter what form of art, so much of it is influenced (disrupted?) by money -- it almost seems inevitable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alan_wade</author><text>Computers, internet, youtube, games - these things are a part of a real world. I mean, they aren&#x27;t a hallucination, they don&#x27;t exist on a separate plane of reality. Experiences are real, joy they bring is real, and for many people, it&#x27;s far better than what the &quot;real&quot; world around them has to offer.<p>If people are tempted to escape into a virtual world, it might be because the real world around them sucks.</text></comment> |
20,740,257 | 20,739,483 | 1 | 2 | 20,736,586 | train | <story><title>Wireless Carrier Throttling of Online Video Is Pervasive: Study</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-19/wireless-carrier-throttling-of-online-video-is-pervasive-study</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jerkstate</author><text>In those days it was typical for the costs of peering to be borne by the sender, relative to the traffic ratio. This changed when Netflix and Youtube decided to use their PR and lobbying strength to bring the negotiation to the court of public opinion - and normal people started referring to typical peering cost-sharing agreements using emotionally loaded words like &quot;ransom&quot;</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>Yup, and in Comcast&#x27;s case, when Netflix finally paid Comcast&#x27;s ransom, the problem was suddenly fixed a few minutes later, because Comcast literally just had to reconfigure the router and plug in a second cable.</text></item><item><author>briffle</author><text>Not to mention, they can now go and ask that provider to pay them for the right to &#x27;upgrade&#x27; their connection, to enable their customers to get what they are paying the ISP for.</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>This is your ISP being sneaky, but probably not in the way you think. This is what Netflix has been complaining about for years.<p>Your ISP is purposely providing a too-small link to your video provider. So when a lot of people are using that provider, it gets slow. When you switch to another provider, or a VPN, you get to use a fast connection to that other VPN that isn&#x27;t overloaded, and then a fast connection back to your video provider.<p>This way your ISP can claim they are not throttling traffic because they aren&#x27;t inspecting the packets for traffic shaping, they are just using physically poor connectivity to certain providers for traffic shaping.</text></item><item><author>ben7799</author><text>I keep thinking I see this on my wired (Comcast) connection too.<p>Stuff just behaves too strangely for it to be anything else.<p>One video provider will get slow. Switch to the mobile connection and it&#x27;s fine. Switch to another site on the wired connection, that&#x27;s fine too.<p>They&#x27;ve made it perfectly clear they&#x27;re unhappy I won&#x27;t pay them an extra $100+&#x2F;month for 900 channels of crap over and over.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FireBeyond</author><text>Okay, let&#x27;s go the other route then. BackBlaze, CrashPlan. These are companies where Comcast&#x2F;other ISP customers are sending THEM huge amounts of data and getting nearly nothing in return.<p>So these ISPs should be bearing the costs of peering to backup providers, correct, by your logic? Or would that be the backup providers holding ISPs to &quot;ransom&quot;?<p>Apropos of anything else, ISPs (generally) provide massively asymmetric pipes. You can&#x27;t provide an asymmetric pipe and then complain that data use on that pipe is, well, asymmetric.</text></comment> | <story><title>Wireless Carrier Throttling of Online Video Is Pervasive: Study</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-19/wireless-carrier-throttling-of-online-video-is-pervasive-study</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jerkstate</author><text>In those days it was typical for the costs of peering to be borne by the sender, relative to the traffic ratio. This changed when Netflix and Youtube decided to use their PR and lobbying strength to bring the negotiation to the court of public opinion - and normal people started referring to typical peering cost-sharing agreements using emotionally loaded words like &quot;ransom&quot;</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>Yup, and in Comcast&#x27;s case, when Netflix finally paid Comcast&#x27;s ransom, the problem was suddenly fixed a few minutes later, because Comcast literally just had to reconfigure the router and plug in a second cable.</text></item><item><author>briffle</author><text>Not to mention, they can now go and ask that provider to pay them for the right to &#x27;upgrade&#x27; their connection, to enable their customers to get what they are paying the ISP for.</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>This is your ISP being sneaky, but probably not in the way you think. This is what Netflix has been complaining about for years.<p>Your ISP is purposely providing a too-small link to your video provider. So when a lot of people are using that provider, it gets slow. When you switch to another provider, or a VPN, you get to use a fast connection to that other VPN that isn&#x27;t overloaded, and then a fast connection back to your video provider.<p>This way your ISP can claim they are not throttling traffic because they aren&#x27;t inspecting the packets for traffic shaping, they are just using physically poor connectivity to certain providers for traffic shaping.</text></item><item><author>ben7799</author><text>I keep thinking I see this on my wired (Comcast) connection too.<p>Stuff just behaves too strangely for it to be anything else.<p>One video provider will get slow. Switch to the mobile connection and it&#x27;s fine. Switch to another site on the wired connection, that&#x27;s fine too.<p>They&#x27;ve made it perfectly clear they&#x27;re unhappy I won&#x27;t pay them an extra $100+&#x2F;month for 900 channels of crap over and over.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>The ratio requirements are a red herring. If your ISP says you get a certain bandwidth, it is on them to provide the appropriate pipes to get to where <i>their customers</i> want to go. How can the ISP on the other side of Comcast be responsible for maintaining ratios if Comcast&#x27;s customers are the ones that are requesting the data?</text></comment> |
256,856 | 256,647 | 1 | 3 | 256,623 | train | <story><title>Randy Pausch, noted CMU prof, succumbs to cancer</title><url>http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08207/899511-100.stm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>donw</author><text>His "last lecture" helped to bootstrap me out of nearly a year of depression.<p>It is a sad day when a man who has helped, inspired, and driven so many to excellence passes from the world, for few men are capable of stepping up to shoulder the burden that Randy carried, and fewer still could do so with such cheerfulness, tenacity, and care.<p>He was a great man, and he will be missed by many.</text></comment> | <story><title>Randy Pausch, noted CMU prof, succumbs to cancer</title><url>http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08207/899511-100.stm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rms</author><text>Time Management: <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5784740380335567758" rel="nofollow">http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5784740380335567758</a><p>Last Lecture: <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5700431505846055184" rel="nofollow">http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5700431505846055184</a></text></comment> |
21,369,962 | 21,369,491 | 1 | 3 | 21,369,003 | train | <story><title>Before Deadly Crashes, Boeing Pushed for Law That Undercut Oversight</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/27/business/boeing-737-max-crashes.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ahartmetz</author><text>Adam Smith is very selectively quoted by &quot;free market&quot; types...</text></item><item><author>pseudolus</author><text>&quot;The proposal of any new law or regulation which comes from [businessmen], ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never to be adopted till after having been long and carefully examined, not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men, whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it.&quot;<p>—Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Cause of the Wealth of Nations, vol. 1,</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NeedMoreTea</author><text>Yes, they always seem to neglect his views on corporations for some peculiar reasons.</text></comment> | <story><title>Before Deadly Crashes, Boeing Pushed for Law That Undercut Oversight</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/27/business/boeing-737-max-crashes.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ahartmetz</author><text>Adam Smith is very selectively quoted by &quot;free market&quot; types...</text></item><item><author>pseudolus</author><text>&quot;The proposal of any new law or regulation which comes from [businessmen], ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never to be adopted till after having been long and carefully examined, not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men, whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it.&quot;<p>—Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Cause of the Wealth of Nations, vol. 1,</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agumonkey</author><text>All early thinkers are. Curse of applied myopia.</text></comment> |
2,492,546 | 2,492,518 | 1 | 2 | 2,491,177 | train | <story><title>Non-Libyan URL Shortener</title><url>http://gadaf.fi/index.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>soult</author><text>While it is a funny play on all those .ly domains and the fact that vb.ly got seized by the Libyan government, it is my opinion that yet another URL shortener is a stupid way of protest.<p>Let me explain: I work with the Urlteam, a group of people that saves shorturl-&#62;longurl mappings for a bunch of shorteners. The typical life cycle of small shorteners is this:<p>- URL shortener opens, gets some praise for weird feature that bit.ly doesn't have.<p>- People actually don't care about feature and continue to use bit.ly.<p>- Spammers discover the shortener and abuse it.<p>- Owner closes the shortener because he can't deal with the spam.<p>All that remains are some non-functional links.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wladimir</author><text>URL shorteners are evil. It's the digital equivalent of stepping into a car driven by a stranger, blindfolded. You don't know where you're going before you're there. It might not necessarily be a pleasant place.</text></comment> | <story><title>Non-Libyan URL Shortener</title><url>http://gadaf.fi/index.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>soult</author><text>While it is a funny play on all those .ly domains and the fact that vb.ly got seized by the Libyan government, it is my opinion that yet another URL shortener is a stupid way of protest.<p>Let me explain: I work with the Urlteam, a group of people that saves shorturl-&#62;longurl mappings for a bunch of shorteners. The typical life cycle of small shorteners is this:<p>- URL shortener opens, gets some praise for weird feature that bit.ly doesn't have.<p>- People actually don't care about feature and continue to use bit.ly.<p>- Spammers discover the shortener and abuse it.<p>- Owner closes the shortener because he can't deal with the spam.<p>All that remains are some non-functional links.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>warp</author><text>That sounds like a useful thing to do. Does Urlteam have a website somewhere? A quick search didn't turn up much information.</text></comment> |
10,480,691 | 10,480,286 | 1 | 3 | 10,478,940 | train | <story><title>‘The Senator Be Embezzling’</title><url>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/09/mag-prison-smith-213098</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>daltonlp</author><text>By contrast:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.themarshallproject.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;08&#x2F;19&#x2F;prisoners-who-fight-wildfires-in-california-an-insider-s-look" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.themarshallproject.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;08&#x2F;19&#x2F;prisoners-who-...</a><p><i>&quot;I forgot I was incarcerated sometimes. The staff treated you like a human, not a number.&quot;</i><p><i>&quot;I’d say it was a way more liberal place, with way less of the prison politics. At the camp, everyone wasn’t segregated by race, like it was in prison. And the power dynamics and the violence you see on the prison yard, the ‘survival of the fittest’ stuff — that was hardly there at all.&quot;</i><p><i>&quot;There were enough of the tough guys there that I had thought the same politics would still hold true, but I learned that fewer total men, plus more freedom for those men, equals a safer place than an overcrowded yard.&quot;</i><p><i>&quot;You’re still counting down the days until you go home; it’s not like you want to stay there. But fighting fires, man, that is so much safer than being in prison.&quot;</i><p><i>&quot;I saw guys fall off cliffs and get pretty injured, chainsaw injuries, burns, heat stroke.&quot;</i><p><i>&quot;It was so physically demanding — but I have to say, it was an honor, a privilege, and a gift to be doing it. Every day, we wanted to prove we were better than the professional firefighters who were there. And it made me understand how much good I could do and how proud of myself I could be at the end of the day, which never happened in prison.&quot;</i></text></comment> | <story><title>‘The Senator Be Embezzling’</title><url>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/09/mag-prison-smith-213098</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mabbo</author><text>If prisons were paid based on recidivism rates rather than &quot;keeping a human alive for X years&quot;, I suspect we&#x27;d see more humanity in how we treat prisoners.</text></comment> |
23,626,751 | 23,626,433 | 1 | 2 | 23,625,977 | train | <story><title>Facebook accused of trying to decloak domain owners' personal Whois info</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/23/facebook_gdpr_workaround/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sfgweilr4f</author><text>From TFA, Facebook &quot;... continues to claim that being a registered trademark holder is sufficient to be granted full access to the Whois database, and that all other routes are unduly burdensome.&quot;<p>So any fraudster just needs a registered trademark and they would, according to Facebook&#x27;s request, be granted full access to the database.<p>And no oversight, as &quot;all other routes are unduly burdensome.&quot; That means they DON&#x27;T want subpeonas or any kind of restriction in between like a judge who could evaluate the request based on some kind of merit. No limits. Just a giant straw they can use to get all that juicy data.<p>Facebook&#x27;s request doesn&#x27;t sound very good to me. Sounds great for criminals though.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook accused of trying to decloak domain owners' personal Whois info</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/23/facebook_gdpr_workaround/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>notRobot</author><text> &gt; Progress has been slow going, in large part because commercial entities desperately want access to the full registration data of domains – which includes people’s home addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses – and have been trying to find ways around the privacy protections.<p>Ouch. This is going to make it very hard for people to host content on the web anonymously, forcing them to link their entire identity to their website. This sucks.</text></comment> |
25,977,332 | 25,977,288 | 1 | 2 | 25,976,439 | train | <story><title>Drawbacks of P2P and a defense of Signal</title><url>https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10216-the-hidden-drawbacks-of-p2p-and-a-defense-of-signal</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gorgonzolachz</author><text>Can anyone chime in on their experiences hosting a synapse server? I have close to a dozen people on mine (although we don&#x27;t federate much with the network as a whole, I set it up initially for a couple of groupchats&#x2F;DMs with friends) and I&#x27;m not even close to hitting the limits of the $5&#x2F;mo Digitalocean server I put it on. Does federating with the greater Matrix ecosystem cost that much extra processing power, that one user&#x27;s chats are taking multiple gigs of RAM and gigabytes of space? It looks like the author&#x27;s using multiple bridges, which could be a problem, but my understanding is that bridges are separate programs that hook into synapse via an API.<p>I will agree that voip&#x2F;video isn&#x27;t there yet, tried it with some friends and none of us could get anything working. I did go out and set up a TURN server afterwards, but once a piece of tech fails as badly as element did for us the damage is done. E2EE could definitely be done better as well, but in another post on here I saw a comment detailing a bunch of clients (many of which were abandonware) that didn&#x27;t support E2EE at all. That&#x27;s going to kill mass adoption, since you have no idea how many people are on those zombie clients that you still need to support. I wonder if the Matrix API has a way to define versions for these purposes, to advertise the highest supported version by both the client and server?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sweden</author><text>I have been running my own Matrix instance with federation on my 20 dollar&#x2F;month Linode VPS for 5 years already.<p>I use between some friends and family and I&#x27;m also connected to massive channels like the official &quot;Element Android&quot; and &quot;Element Web&#x2F;Desktop&quot;.<p>And it runs... just fine. The server can be a bit performance hungry but I also host plenty of other services on my VPS (email, HTTP server, Seafile, VPN, etc) and I never noticed any degradation in performance in any of them.<p>They have been making a lot of progress in improving the performance of the Synapse server and it is very usable now. And it is not difficult to configure at all, it&#x27;s easier than configuring Prosody.<p>I would say that the bottleneck now is more about improving the UX and the Voip capabilities of the clients.</text></comment> | <story><title>Drawbacks of P2P and a defense of Signal</title><url>https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10216-the-hidden-drawbacks-of-p2p-and-a-defense-of-signal</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gorgonzolachz</author><text>Can anyone chime in on their experiences hosting a synapse server? I have close to a dozen people on mine (although we don&#x27;t federate much with the network as a whole, I set it up initially for a couple of groupchats&#x2F;DMs with friends) and I&#x27;m not even close to hitting the limits of the $5&#x2F;mo Digitalocean server I put it on. Does federating with the greater Matrix ecosystem cost that much extra processing power, that one user&#x27;s chats are taking multiple gigs of RAM and gigabytes of space? It looks like the author&#x27;s using multiple bridges, which could be a problem, but my understanding is that bridges are separate programs that hook into synapse via an API.<p>I will agree that voip&#x2F;video isn&#x27;t there yet, tried it with some friends and none of us could get anything working. I did go out and set up a TURN server afterwards, but once a piece of tech fails as badly as element did for us the damage is done. E2EE could definitely be done better as well, but in another post on here I saw a comment detailing a bunch of clients (many of which were abandonware) that didn&#x27;t support E2EE at all. That&#x27;s going to kill mass adoption, since you have no idea how many people are on those zombie clients that you still need to support. I wonder if the Matrix API has a way to define versions for these purposes, to advertise the highest supported version by both the client and server?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seusscat</author><text>I have been running a Synapse instance for nearly 3 years now. My instance is not for open registration but just for family and friends, currently it has around 7 users on it and federates with the rest of the Matrix ecosystem. I also have some experience writing apps that use the Matrix APIs.<p>The federation API on matrix is a little too chatty for my taste. But that in itself causes no problems. The problems start when a user on your homeserver joins a massive room on any other homeserver. Most commonly these are the bug rooms on matrix.org. Once someone joins one such room, synapse will start slowing down and taking tons of RAM. This has significantly improved in the last year, by huge leaps and bounds. It however does remain a memory hungry process.<p>VoIP &#x2F; video on the other hand has been a success story for me. 1:1 calls run smoothly after installing a TURN server. Me and my users use the calling functionality multiple tines a day and don&#x27;t seem to have any problems with it.</text></comment> |
18,210,626 | 18,210,663 | 1 | 2 | 18,209,979 | train | <story><title>Business networking for nerds (2017)</title><url>http://benjaminreinhardt.com/networking-for-nerds/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fenwick67</author><text>Networking isn&#x27;t talking to people about important things. It&#x27;s talking to people with the specific goal of moving your career forward. That&#x27;s what makes chronic networkers insufferable, and those people give networking a bad rap.</text></item><item><author>chrisseaton</author><text>If you call it &#x27;networking&#x27; it sounds bad.<p>If you call it &#x27;getting out there and speaking to people, listening to what their problems, hopes, opinions are, and sharing the same yourself and making a connection to see if you can mutually help each other&#x27; then it suddenly sounds like a better thing, doesn&#x27;t it?</text></item><item><author>incompatible</author><text>Think of how much society is set back because people who have no interest or ability with &quot;networking&quot; aren&#x27;t given the opportunities that they should have had. Instead, we end up with the most socially aggressive &#x2F; self promoting running practically everything (badly).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eropple</author><text>I network <i>all the damn time</i>. I talk to people. I get lunch with new people who I don&#x27;t know (there&#x27;s a standing invite in my HN profile for a reason). I don&#x27;t have some Specific Goal of Moving My Career Forward. I like people, I like meeting people, I like learning about them, and in the future maybe I&#x27;ll do them a solid or they&#x27;ll do me one.<p>It pays off, though. And it&#x27;s fun.<p>But I have never started a conversation (at least, not with somebody I didn&#x27;t already know well, like my boss) with the Specific Goal of Moving My Career Forward.<p>If that&#x27;s what you think networking is, you&#x27;re missing out.</text></comment> | <story><title>Business networking for nerds (2017)</title><url>http://benjaminreinhardt.com/networking-for-nerds/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fenwick67</author><text>Networking isn&#x27;t talking to people about important things. It&#x27;s talking to people with the specific goal of moving your career forward. That&#x27;s what makes chronic networkers insufferable, and those people give networking a bad rap.</text></item><item><author>chrisseaton</author><text>If you call it &#x27;networking&#x27; it sounds bad.<p>If you call it &#x27;getting out there and speaking to people, listening to what their problems, hopes, opinions are, and sharing the same yourself and making a connection to see if you can mutually help each other&#x27; then it suddenly sounds like a better thing, doesn&#x27;t it?</text></item><item><author>incompatible</author><text>Think of how much society is set back because people who have no interest or ability with &quot;networking&quot; aren&#x27;t given the opportunities that they should have had. Instead, we end up with the most socially aggressive &#x2F; self promoting running practically everything (badly).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomjen3</author><text>No, that is what makes bad networkers insufferable.<p>Really, when you network the goal should be to share and absorb information about who is doing and interested in what. Some time, which may be anywhere from milliseconds to decades, you might remember somebody who is going to benefit from that connection (could be you, could be somebody else, could be the person you talked with) and so you suggests the parties meet.<p>The people you complain about, and I agree with you 100%, are those who are focused on a particular goal, in the short term.<p>Human connections are like any other investment, if you try to get results this quarter, you will ruin everything. If you can wait ten years, you can get the world...<p>Networking is about give and take, providing value and making connections.</text></comment> |
33,381,743 | 33,381,656 | 1 | 3 | 33,381,285 | train | <story><title>Why is D's garbage collection slower than Go's?</title><url>https://forum.dlang.org/post/[email protected]</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hayley-patton</author><text>The Go collector isn&#x27;t generational or moving, and the write barrier AIUI is only used for getting it to run concurrently. The barrier records interesting writes when the collector is running, to avoid &quot;losing&quot; objects whose liveness changed while the collector was running.<p>Barriers are pretty cheap; [0] claims a 0.9% time overhead for a card-marking barrier common in generational collection and 1.6% for an object-logging barrier which is also useful for concurrent collection. Apparently they&#x27;re cheaper nowadays, but the results aren&#x27;t published yet [1]. That&#x27;s not to say that the barriers are free, but it seems feasible that collector optimisations could still cover that ground.<p>It can help throughput, still, by running the collector concurrently. I&#x27;ve felt that while working on a new parallel (but not yet concurrent) collector for SBCL; the program parallelises well, but a serial collector hurts worse than it should by stopping the program.<p>[0] &quot;Barriers reconsidered, friendlier still!&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;users.cecs.anu.edu.au&#x2F;~steveb&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;papers&#x2F;barrier-ismm-2012.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;users.cecs.anu.edu.au&#x2F;~steveb&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;papers&#x2F;barrier-is...</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;stevemblackburn&#x2F;status&#x2F;1494240906006110209" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;stevemblackburn&#x2F;status&#x2F;14942409060061102...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Why is D's garbage collection slower than Go's?</title><url>https://forum.dlang.org/post/[email protected]</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>masklinn</author><text>&gt; And since there are all kinds of pointers in D, one no longer can use a moving GC allocator, because it cannot know exactly where 100% of the GC pointers are.<p>Go&#x27;s GC is non-moving and it can&#x27;t safely be made moving in the current state[0].<p>It also used to be partially conservative until 1.3[1][2][3]: the heap was precise, but the stack was conservative.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;golang&#x2F;go&#x2F;issues&#x2F;46787" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;golang&#x2F;go&#x2F;issues&#x2F;46787</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;go.dev&#x2F;doc&#x2F;go1.3#garbage_collector" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;go.dev&#x2F;doc&#x2F;go1.3#garbage_collector</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;document&#x2F;d&#x2F;1lyPIbmsYbXnpNj57a261hgOYVpNRcgydurVQIyZOz_o&#x2F;pub" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;document&#x2F;d&#x2F;1lyPIbmsYbXnpNj57a261hgOY...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;document&#x2F;d&#x2F;13v_u3UrN2pgUtPnH4y-qfmlXwEEryikFu0SQiwk35SA&#x2F;pub" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;document&#x2F;d&#x2F;13v_u3UrN2pgUtPnH4y-qfmlX...</a></text></comment> |
27,368,083 | 27,366,274 | 1 | 3 | 27,366,056 | train | <story><title>25 Years of CSS</title><url>https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2021/05/25/25-years-of-css/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ubermonkey</author><text>There is a long list of folks who I&#x27;ll never meet, but for whom I&#x27;d love to buy a beer, and Meyer is at the top.<p>After the dot-com crash I found myself coding again, and fell into CSS with his book, and managed to carve out a spot for myself as a bit of an early CSS guru in my professional network. Doing that saved my house, quite literally.<p>CSS can be gnarly and frustrating. This was even MORE true back then when you basically had to create parallel implementations of the same layout to support IE&#x27;s willfully wrong interpretations of the box model (oh, and its bugs). But it beat the everliving crap out of what came before.<p>I&#x27;ve long since left that part of my career -- I mostly talk and tell people what to do now -- but I&#x27;ll always love CSS a little for that period of my life.</text></comment> | <story><title>25 Years of CSS</title><url>https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2021/05/25/25-years-of-css/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>foxfired</author><text>To this day, every CSS I write for a website starts with a copy of the Meyerweb CSS Reset. I&#x27;ve been doing it for so many years yet never thought twice about it.<p>Only a couple months ago I decided to check what Mr Meyer was up to. I bought his book Design for Real life thinking it was about CSS. I was delightedly surprised by the breadth of new things I learned about design that I had never considered before.</text></comment> |
14,881,234 | 14,881,004 | 1 | 3 | 14,879,483 | train | <story><title>Tesla Model 3 First Drive Review</title><url>http://www.motortrend.com/cars/tesla/model-3/2018/exclusive-tesla-model-3-first-drive-review/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>laydn</author><text>Center console indicators are quite common. One advantage is that, the indicators are never blocked when you are in a turn. With your traditional instrument cluster placement, the steering wheel blocks the indicators.<p>Cars with instruments in the center dashboard:<p>Mini Cooper: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;images.hgmsites.net&#x2F;lrg&#x2F;2010-mini-cooper-hardtop-2-door-coupe-s-dashboard_100304478_l.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;images.hgmsites.net&#x2F;lrg&#x2F;2010-mini-cooper-hardtop-2-do...</a><p>Toyota Yaris: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cars.usnews.com&#x2F;static&#x2F;images&#x2F;Auto&#x2F;izmo&#x2F;306771&#x2F;2009_toyota_yaris_dashboard.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cars.usnews.com&#x2F;static&#x2F;images&#x2F;Auto&#x2F;izmo&#x2F;306771&#x2F;2009_...</a><p>Saturn ION: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;consumerguide.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;05130061990005.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;consumerguide.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;05130061...</a><p>Citroen C4 Picasso: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com&#x2F;736x&#x2F;fe&#x2F;d6&#x2F;5a&#x2F;fed65a4f2364be22592dc89c495a4587--citroen-c-picasso-family-cars.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com&#x2F;736x&#x2F;fe&#x2F;d6&#x2F;5a&#x2F;fed65a4f2...</a><p>etc...</text></item><item><author>jimmcslim</author><text>Is there a HUD or do I have to move my eyes to the centre console to check my speed? Seems like bad ergonomics to me... and whereas the road ahead is perhaps still in my peripheral vision when I check my speedo, its less so if I am glancing at the centre console (which maybe has a bunch of other distracting things on it as well?)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SideburnsOfDoom</author><text>Mini Cooper: There is a speedometer directly behind steering wheel, in a smaller secondary instrument panel, as shown in the picture.<p>Toyota Yaris: Not shown in that picture is the Head Up Display projected onto the windscreen, even closer to the driver&#x27;s line of sight. I drove a Yaris for a few days a while back, and the HUD is good - not distracting there&#x27;s and no need to turn your head, which would be dangerous.<p>Citroen C4: Another HUD <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.citroen.co.uk&#x2F;about-citroen&#x2F;technology&#x2F;head-up-display" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.citroen.co.uk&#x2F;about-citroen&#x2F;technology&#x2F;head-up-di...</a><p>Saturn ION: Seems to be the only valid example. I don&#x27;t know myself, can&#x27;t remember ever being in a Saturn ION. Wikipedia tells me that GM does not make them anymore.<p>it still seems to me that for reasons of safety , you want <i>some</i> instrumentation to be very close to the driver&#x27;s default line of sight. Not necessarily all of it, but a few key indicators such as speed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla Model 3 First Drive Review</title><url>http://www.motortrend.com/cars/tesla/model-3/2018/exclusive-tesla-model-3-first-drive-review/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>laydn</author><text>Center console indicators are quite common. One advantage is that, the indicators are never blocked when you are in a turn. With your traditional instrument cluster placement, the steering wheel blocks the indicators.<p>Cars with instruments in the center dashboard:<p>Mini Cooper: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;images.hgmsites.net&#x2F;lrg&#x2F;2010-mini-cooper-hardtop-2-door-coupe-s-dashboard_100304478_l.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;images.hgmsites.net&#x2F;lrg&#x2F;2010-mini-cooper-hardtop-2-do...</a><p>Toyota Yaris: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cars.usnews.com&#x2F;static&#x2F;images&#x2F;Auto&#x2F;izmo&#x2F;306771&#x2F;2009_toyota_yaris_dashboard.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cars.usnews.com&#x2F;static&#x2F;images&#x2F;Auto&#x2F;izmo&#x2F;306771&#x2F;2009_...</a><p>Saturn ION: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;consumerguide.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;05130061990005.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;consumerguide.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;05130061...</a><p>Citroen C4 Picasso: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com&#x2F;736x&#x2F;fe&#x2F;d6&#x2F;5a&#x2F;fed65a4f2364be22592dc89c495a4587--citroen-c-picasso-family-cars.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com&#x2F;736x&#x2F;fe&#x2F;d6&#x2F;5a&#x2F;fed65a4f2...</a><p>etc...</text></item><item><author>jimmcslim</author><text>Is there a HUD or do I have to move my eyes to the centre console to check my speed? Seems like bad ergonomics to me... and whereas the road ahead is perhaps still in my peripheral vision when I check my speedo, its less so if I am glancing at the centre console (which maybe has a bunch of other distracting things on it as well?)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reportingsjr</author><text>I have the Toyota Prius C which is based on the yaris. I absolutely love the center console indicator and hate driving cars with it behind the wheel now. I&#x27;m really glad to see more manufacturers switching to the center console displays.</text></comment> |
6,970,094 | 6,969,744 | 1 | 3 | 6,969,222 | train | <story><title>New Twist in International Relations: Corporate Keep-My-Data-Out-of-U.S. Clause</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-24/a-new-twist-in-international-relations-the-corporate-keep-my-data-out-of-the-u-s-clause.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>beloch</author><text>Other HN readers are making some assumptions that I have to take issue with.<p>A1: Stories about this kind of thing are posted by people who want to take business away from the U.S..<p>This is possible, but there are a lot of people who value privacy too, and I suspect they are in the majority. Want to prove me wrong? Get polling.<p>A2: Everybody else is doing it, but only the NSA got caught.<p>First, this doesn&#x27;t make it acceptable. Second, it&#x27;s entirely possible not everybody else is doing it. Third, even if everybody is doing it, the U.S. has more money to pour into black-op projects than any other nation on Earth, so it&#x27;s a safe bet that the NSA is, by far, the <i>worst</i> offender.<p>A3: Countries like China spy for corporate gain, but the U.S. would never do such a thing.<p>Right, the U.S. has never staged a coup or conducted a war that benefited U.S. corporations, and certainly wouldn&#x27;t need intelligence to help with that sort of thing in the future...<p>-----<p>If you&#x27;re okay with what the NSA has been doing, here&#x27;s something to consider. Several years ago Sony got a lot of bad press for putting rootkits onto audio CD&#x27;s. They wanted to stop piracy. Honest customers had nothing to fear from Sony! However, honest customers did have something to fear from viruses, malware, etc. that were subsequently written to exploit the security holes created by the root-kit.<p>The NSA is collecting data on <i>you</i>. You trust the NSA and your nation, so you&#x27;re not worried about how they&#x27;ll use that data. Fine. Do you trust everyone who works for them? You probably shouldn&#x27;t. They certainly don&#x27;t trust their own employees and they still got burned by Snowden! The NSA might not be looking at your data until you do something terroristy, but who else could have access to the NSA&#x27;s data-stores? Would anyone know Snowden had stolen all those files if he kept quiet about them? Probably not. Odds are you&#x27;re pretty boring and nobody is interested in what the NSA has on you. What if you were actually really interesting, and your enemies had a lot of money? Do you plan on becoming interesting at some point in the future, or are you firmly committed to being a bore until you die?</text></comment> | <story><title>New Twist in International Relations: Corporate Keep-My-Data-Out-of-U.S. Clause</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-24/a-new-twist-in-international-relations-the-corporate-keep-my-data-out-of-the-u-s-clause.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bjelkeman-again</author><text>Everyone in Europe I talk to about online data agrees that this isn&#x27;t empty talk. Practically it really isn&#x27;t possible today to in a meaningful way avoid some of your data or data about your usage of the Internet to end up in the US.<p>But, I would argue that this is more of a change in mindset and awareness at this point, which eventually will force changes. Companies or local government will want their data to be stored in a jurisdiction where they at least have an influence over how it is protected. Balkanisation may be the result, or ineffectual laws and regulations, maybe even something useful. But I believe something will happen.</text></comment> |
36,652,029 | 36,651,738 | 1 | 3 | 36,649,740 | train | <story><title>Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019)</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/20190512092903/https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5x2sfx/pocket_it_gets_worse_the_more_you_use_it/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hamsterbase</author><text>Most &quot;read it later&quot; services save web pages on their servers, which cannot preserve paywalls, ad-free content, pages that require login or registration, and pages on a local network.<p>Sharing why I decided to develop my own &quot;read it later&quot; software.<p>1. I have a habit of saving web pages I like, most of which are in MHTML format, some are saved as single-file HTML, and others are web archives saved on iOS. Altogether, I have accumulated thousands of them.<p>2. On my computer, I can preview them one by one, but I cannot search through them. So, I developed a Node.js service that parses web pages locally and stores them in an SQLite FTS for full-text search. I deployed the service using Docker on my NAS.<p>3. To enhance my learning experience, I also developed an annotation feature that allows me to make notes and annotations directly on the offline HTML. For good articles, I save them to read slowly over time.<p>4. Gradually, the app gained some users. Since they were not familiar with Docker, I wrapped it with Electron and developed a standalone desktop version. The desktop version and Docker version use CRDT for peer-to-peer synchronization.<p>5. Some users provided feedback that it was inconvenient to annotate after saving, so I developed an open-source browser extension. Users can now annotate web pages directly in the browser, and the annotations and snapshots are saved automatically. When visiting the page again in the future, previous annotations can be restored.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asaddhamani</author><text>Yesterday I was on a flight so I downloaded some paywalled articles on my phone using safari reading list. Once we took off and I lost connectivity I opened the article and saw - the paywall page. I tried looking for mobile read later apps that save offline and save what I saw not what their servers see, but not much luck.<p>I’ve my own app which can save pages as I saw them and create reader views out of them, but no offline access yet. This is a pretty niche use case but I feel these days more and more decent writing is behind paywalls (Substack and newsletters) so the current read it later apps are losing usefulness and they’re all frozen on features.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019)</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/20190512092903/https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5x2sfx/pocket_it_gets_worse_the_more_you_use_it/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hamsterbase</author><text>Most &quot;read it later&quot; services save web pages on their servers, which cannot preserve paywalls, ad-free content, pages that require login or registration, and pages on a local network.<p>Sharing why I decided to develop my own &quot;read it later&quot; software.<p>1. I have a habit of saving web pages I like, most of which are in MHTML format, some are saved as single-file HTML, and others are web archives saved on iOS. Altogether, I have accumulated thousands of them.<p>2. On my computer, I can preview them one by one, but I cannot search through them. So, I developed a Node.js service that parses web pages locally and stores them in an SQLite FTS for full-text search. I deployed the service using Docker on my NAS.<p>3. To enhance my learning experience, I also developed an annotation feature that allows me to make notes and annotations directly on the offline HTML. For good articles, I save them to read slowly over time.<p>4. Gradually, the app gained some users. Since they were not familiar with Docker, I wrapped it with Electron and developed a standalone desktop version. The desktop version and Docker version use CRDT for peer-to-peer synchronization.<p>5. Some users provided feedback that it was inconvenient to annotate after saving, so I developed an open-source browser extension. Users can now annotate web pages directly in the browser, and the annotations and snapshots are saved automatically. When visiting the page again in the future, previous annotations can be restored.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>poisonborz</author><text>Looks cool, but writing &quot;pay for what you need&quot; and no pricing info on the page is really off-putting.</text></comment> |
37,862,430 | 37,862,427 | 1 | 2 | 37,860,819 | train | <story><title>OpenAI is too cheap to beat</title><url>https://generatingconversation.substack.com/p/openai-is-too-cheap-to-beat</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jaredklewis</author><text>&gt; Offer the product for dirt cheap to kill off competition, then extract as much value from your users as possible by either mining data or hiking the price.<p>Genuine question, what are some examples of companies in that &quot;hiking the price&quot; camp?<p>I can think of tons of tech companies that sold or sell stuff at a loss for growth, but struggling to find examples where the companies then are able to turn dominant market share into higher prices.<p>To be clear, I&#x27;m definitely not implying they are not out there, just looking for examples.</text></item><item><author>Bukhmanizer</author><text>The bleeding obvious is that OpenAI is doing what most tech companies for the last 20 years have done. Offer the product for dirt cheap to kill off competition, then extract as much value from your users as possible by either mining data or hiking the price.<p>I don’t understand how people are surprised by this anymore.<p>So yeah, it’s the best option right now, when the company is burning through cash, but they’re planning on getting that money back from you <i>eventually</i>.</text></item><item><author>serjester</author><text>I think this is under appreciated. I run a &quot;talk-to-your-files&quot; website with 5ish K MRR and a pretty generous free tier. My OpenAI costs have not exceeded $200 &#x2F; mo. People talk about using smaller, cheaper models but unless you have strong data security requirements you&#x27;re burdening yourself with serious maintenance work and using objectively worse models to save pennies. This doesn&#x27;t even consider OpenAI continuously lowering their prices.<p>I&#x27;ve talked to a good amount of businesses and 90% of custom use cases would also have negligible AI costs. In my opinion, unless you&#x27;re in a super regulated industry or doing genuinely cutting edge stuff, you should probably just be using the best that&#x27;s available (OpenAI).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beezlebroxxxxxx</author><text>Uber is probably the biggest pure example. When I was in uni when they first spread, Uber&#x27;s entire business model was flood the market with hilariously low prices and steep discounts. People overnight started using them like crazy. They were practically giving away their product. Now, they&#x27;re as expensive, if not sometimes more expensive, than any other taxi or ridesharing service in my area.<p>One thing I&#x27;ll add is that it&#x27;s not always that this ends with higher prices in an absolute sense, but that the tech company is able to essentially cut the knees out of their competitors until they&#x27;re a shell of their former selves. Then when the prices go &quot;up&quot;, they&#x27;re in a way a return to the &quot;norm&quot;, only they have a larger and dominant market share because of their crazy pricing in the early stages.</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenAI is too cheap to beat</title><url>https://generatingconversation.substack.com/p/openai-is-too-cheap-to-beat</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jaredklewis</author><text>&gt; Offer the product for dirt cheap to kill off competition, then extract as much value from your users as possible by either mining data or hiking the price.<p>Genuine question, what are some examples of companies in that &quot;hiking the price&quot; camp?<p>I can think of tons of tech companies that sold or sell stuff at a loss for growth, but struggling to find examples where the companies then are able to turn dominant market share into higher prices.<p>To be clear, I&#x27;m definitely not implying they are not out there, just looking for examples.</text></item><item><author>Bukhmanizer</author><text>The bleeding obvious is that OpenAI is doing what most tech companies for the last 20 years have done. Offer the product for dirt cheap to kill off competition, then extract as much value from your users as possible by either mining data or hiking the price.<p>I don’t understand how people are surprised by this anymore.<p>So yeah, it’s the best option right now, when the company is burning through cash, but they’re planning on getting that money back from you <i>eventually</i>.</text></item><item><author>serjester</author><text>I think this is under appreciated. I run a &quot;talk-to-your-files&quot; website with 5ish K MRR and a pretty generous free tier. My OpenAI costs have not exceeded $200 &#x2F; mo. People talk about using smaller, cheaper models but unless you have strong data security requirements you&#x27;re burdening yourself with serious maintenance work and using objectively worse models to save pennies. This doesn&#x27;t even consider OpenAI continuously lowering their prices.<p>I&#x27;ve talked to a good amount of businesses and 90% of custom use cases would also have negligible AI costs. In my opinion, unless you&#x27;re in a super regulated industry or doing genuinely cutting edge stuff, you should probably just be using the best that&#x27;s available (OpenAI).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spacebanana7</author><text>The Google Maps API price hike of 2018 [1] is a relevant example.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kobedigital.com&#x2F;google-maps-api-changes" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kobedigital.com&#x2F;google-maps-api-changes</a></text></comment> |
36,596,429 | 36,596,414 | 1 | 3 | 36,596,193 | train | <story><title>That Time I Posted Myself Out Of a Job</title><url>https://cohost.org/stillinbeta/post/1847579-that-time-i-posted-m</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmdli</author><text>&gt; &quot;Being as I’m not an idiot, I elect to bring a witness of my own (@lizthegrey ). She slightly livetweeted that conversation until VP VMware tells her to stop. &quot;<p>This, I think, is the point that caused the firing. It&#x27;s pretty clear that if you choose a witness who then posts everything publicly that you are not discussing in good faith. Like, it&#x27;s your right to speak your mind, and maybe you think you are in the moral right, but if you intentionally antagonize the people you work with you won&#x27;t be working with them for much longer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pewpew2020</author><text>and that was an &quot;external&quot; witness, not even an employee of the company. Which company would tolerate that? Social media has somehow conditioned people to think they can air all of their opinions with no filter and when there are consequences, they act surprised.</text></comment> | <story><title>That Time I Posted Myself Out Of a Job</title><url>https://cohost.org/stillinbeta/post/1847579-that-time-i-posted-m</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmdli</author><text>&gt; &quot;Being as I’m not an idiot, I elect to bring a witness of my own (@lizthegrey ). She slightly livetweeted that conversation until VP VMware tells her to stop. &quot;<p>This, I think, is the point that caused the firing. It&#x27;s pretty clear that if you choose a witness who then posts everything publicly that you are not discussing in good faith. Like, it&#x27;s your right to speak your mind, and maybe you think you are in the moral right, but if you intentionally antagonize the people you work with you won&#x27;t be working with them for much longer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grimgoldgo</author><text>You are allowed to discuss workplace conditions. That&#x27;s like, protected concerted activity 101.<p>If the business was uncomfortable with their treatment of their employees being public, maybe that activity wasn&#x27;t ethical.</text></comment> |
19,546,342 | 19,544,724 | 1 | 2 | 19,542,835 | train | <story><title>Warp – Mobile VPN</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/1111-warp-better-vpn/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arendtio</author><text>&gt; We built Warp around WireGuard<p>So basically Cloudflare created an app with Cloudflare branding and set up a Wireguard server for everyone. No bad, but just check out the original:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wireguard.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wireguard.com</a><p>While I am not a big fan of VPNs in general, I have to admit, that Wireguard performs exceptionally well. I tested it a week ago and the added latency is pretty much just the network latency and the bandwidth loss is minimal (so small I couldn&#x27;t even measure it reliably). What I found most interesting, was that there were some use-cases when the network with Wireguard performed even better than without it (probably related to congestion control).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kentonv</author><text>&gt; So basically Cloudflare created an app with Cloudflare branding and set up a Wireguard server for everyone.<p>Not just one -- servers in 175 (and growing) locations spread around the world, and the app will always use the closest one to you. That&#x27;s arguably a lot more important that what protocol it uses, and is not something you could easily DIY.</text></comment> | <story><title>Warp – Mobile VPN</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/1111-warp-better-vpn/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arendtio</author><text>&gt; We built Warp around WireGuard<p>So basically Cloudflare created an app with Cloudflare branding and set up a Wireguard server for everyone. No bad, but just check out the original:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wireguard.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wireguard.com</a><p>While I am not a big fan of VPNs in general, I have to admit, that Wireguard performs exceptionally well. I tested it a week ago and the added latency is pretty much just the network latency and the bandwidth loss is minimal (so small I couldn&#x27;t even measure it reliably). What I found most interesting, was that there were some use-cases when the network with Wireguard performed even better than without it (probably related to congestion control).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Shank</author><text>I consider myself fairly competent, and I couldn’t understand the wireguard documentation enough to setup my own install without resorting to algo [0]. There’s real value in wrapping a system like WireGuard into a product, because it democratizes technology rather than making it available only to those knowledgable enough to understand how to set it up. I think Warp is great in that regard.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;trailofbits&#x2F;algo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;trailofbits&#x2F;algo</a></text></comment> |
8,247,623 | 8,247,245 | 1 | 3 | 8,246,760 | train | <story><title>Why doctors are sick of their profession</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-u-s-s-ailing-medical-system-a-doctors-perspective-1409325361?mod=WSJ_hppMIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>javert</author><text>The actual experience in the US has been that healthcare functioned best when it was closest to a free market, and the more we socialize it, the worse it gets. (We have been slowly socializing it for many decades through regulation.)<p>You can argue that we haven&#x27;t been socializing it &quot;properly,&quot; but the way we are doing it is just the way government works in the US, and that&#x27;s not going to change.<p>In general, we don&#x27;t have an efficient, honest, effective government, so it can&#x27;t do anything right on a large scale. Though there are some exceptions, those <i>are</i> exceptions. Look at the Obamacare website scandal. That is the rule.</text></item><item><author>toasted</author><text>Non-US anaesthesiologist here. I love my job and relish going to work each morning. I spend almost no time on non-clinical paperwork. I work reasonable hours, have some busy on-call shifts but am generally well supported by my department. I earn good money in the state system - enough to raise a family comfortably and have a nice house, but not silly money. I pay no malpractice insurance, but pay $400 annually to a non-profit society for medico-legal cover. If I want to I can do additional private sector work to earn more (but I don&#x27;t). I live in a country where a high standard of medical care and longer life expectancy is provided for less than half the per capita health spend of USA, and the public health system is so good that the private health sector really does struggle to offer much additional benefit.<p>There are many great examples of socialised health systems in the world, I&#x27;m not sure why the US ignores them? Some of the WSJ comments list all the problems inherent in the US system and then blame socialism for them when the problem is completely the opposite?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johan_larson</author><text>There is very little about the health care industry, at any level, that is &quot;free market&quot;. The government funds much of the basic research that generates new medicines and medical devices and then regulates which ones can be sold. It works hand in hand with medical professional associations to determine who can practice medicine and in what capacity; it also funds residencies, the crucial gateway to becoming a physician. It pays for a hefty portion of medical care (for the young, the old, the very poor, and veterans) directly and regulates how the rest is paid for (out of pocket, through employer-provided insurance, or privately purchased insurance).<p>There are a few islands of private industry in healthcare, but between the regulation and the direct payments, it&#x27;s a government sea.<p>Barring the most radical dissolution of the current system, the question isn&#x27;t whether the government should be involved, but how.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why doctors are sick of their profession</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-u-s-s-ailing-medical-system-a-doctors-perspective-1409325361?mod=WSJ_hppMIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>javert</author><text>The actual experience in the US has been that healthcare functioned best when it was closest to a free market, and the more we socialize it, the worse it gets. (We have been slowly socializing it for many decades through regulation.)<p>You can argue that we haven&#x27;t been socializing it &quot;properly,&quot; but the way we are doing it is just the way government works in the US, and that&#x27;s not going to change.<p>In general, we don&#x27;t have an efficient, honest, effective government, so it can&#x27;t do anything right on a large scale. Though there are some exceptions, those <i>are</i> exceptions. Look at the Obamacare website scandal. That is the rule.</text></item><item><author>toasted</author><text>Non-US anaesthesiologist here. I love my job and relish going to work each morning. I spend almost no time on non-clinical paperwork. I work reasonable hours, have some busy on-call shifts but am generally well supported by my department. I earn good money in the state system - enough to raise a family comfortably and have a nice house, but not silly money. I pay no malpractice insurance, but pay $400 annually to a non-profit society for medico-legal cover. If I want to I can do additional private sector work to earn more (but I don&#x27;t). I live in a country where a high standard of medical care and longer life expectancy is provided for less than half the per capita health spend of USA, and the public health system is so good that the private health sector really does struggle to offer much additional benefit.<p>There are many great examples of socialised health systems in the world, I&#x27;m not sure why the US ignores them? Some of the WSJ comments list all the problems inherent in the US system and then blame socialism for them when the problem is completely the opposite?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>forkandwait</author><text>Downvoted, here is why:<p>I find your statements to be over general to an almost crazy degree -- &quot;the actual experience&quot;? Everywhere? &quot;In general we don&#x27;t have an honest effective government&quot; -- really? Got data? Etc, etc.<p>Also, I would be interested in specific metrics of worse and better -- you make the claim it is worse because of regulation, which you imply is basically the same as socialized funding (which it isn&#x27;t). So where is the data?<p>No offense, but this sounds like canned right wing bullshit rhetoric straight off Fox News. Granted, there is plenty of canned rhetoric on all &quot;sides&quot; to go around, but that doesn&#x27;t make this any better.</text></comment> |
32,306,129 | 32,304,128 | 1 | 3 | 32,303,279 | train | <story><title>Wikipedia has blocked editing ‘recession’ as people change definition</title><url>https://fortune.com/2022/07/29/wikipedia-recession-definition-debate-partial-blocking-new-users/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>badrabbit</author><text>Unpopular opinion: Declaring the economy in or out if recession does not help anyone outside of propagandists and journalists. High corporate profits and high inflation. Those need to be addressed regardless of recession or not. If you call it one, they will use it as cause for even more layoffs and price hikes if you don&#x27;t they will use it as reason to avoid measures to regulate their greed because afterall their greed is preventing a recession.<p>Truth is we will have to wait until 2023 or later to call this a recession.<p>My suspicion is this is all wallstreet&#x27;s shenanigans. There is a growing labor rights movement and this climate makes it hard to pass any laws that support the movement. &quot;Minimum wage caused low profits and an unrecoverable bear market&quot; is the sentiment they want to spread (by they I mean the market makers and investment bankers of wallstreet).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bedhead</author><text><i>&quot;Declaring the economy in or out if recession does not help anyone outside of propagandists and journalists.&quot;</i><p>Correct. This is exactly why the people who are altering the definition are entirely propagandists (sometimes known as politicians) and journalists. In this case, they work in unison because they happen to be on the same team at the moment, so journalists are hoping and begging the government to change the definition so that it provides them sufficient cover so that they don&#x27;t have to write on their front pages that the economy entered into a recession, which is obviously bad for the cause. It&#x27;s the tacit &quot;Help me help you!&quot; situation. Their approach is that if the government says it, by journalists&#x27; standards (for the moment, of course) that&#x27;s good enough by itself to validate it. Voila!<p>This is all stupid anyway. Call it anything you want at anytime, it doesn&#x27;t change reality.</text></comment> | <story><title>Wikipedia has blocked editing ‘recession’ as people change definition</title><url>https://fortune.com/2022/07/29/wikipedia-recession-definition-debate-partial-blocking-new-users/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>badrabbit</author><text>Unpopular opinion: Declaring the economy in or out if recession does not help anyone outside of propagandists and journalists. High corporate profits and high inflation. Those need to be addressed regardless of recession or not. If you call it one, they will use it as cause for even more layoffs and price hikes if you don&#x27;t they will use it as reason to avoid measures to regulate their greed because afterall their greed is preventing a recession.<p>Truth is we will have to wait until 2023 or later to call this a recession.<p>My suspicion is this is all wallstreet&#x27;s shenanigans. There is a growing labor rights movement and this climate makes it hard to pass any laws that support the movement. &quot;Minimum wage caused low profits and an unrecoverable bear market&quot; is the sentiment they want to spread (by they I mean the market makers and investment bankers of wallstreet).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gargs</author><text>High corporate profits and high inflation are all a result of government&#x27;s fiscal policies, though. The point is that this is not just because Wall Street has had a mood swing.</text></comment> |
27,222,091 | 27,222,002 | 1 | 2 | 27,220,941 | train | <story><title>The full story of the RSA hack can finally be told</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/the-full-story-of-the-stunning-rsa-hack-can-finally-be-told/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>NelsonMinar</author><text>This story was big news when it happened and I&#x27;m grateful to Andy Greenberg for writing this retrospective. Pretty much nothing has changed about security at companies in the last ten years that would foil this kind of attack. I mean maybe folks are a little smarter about catching spearfishing Office docs, and Flash exploits are now a thing of the past, but those are replaced by contemporary equivalents. And I&#x27;m sure conveniences like the not-quite-airgapped crucial equipment still persist. We truly have no idea how to secure systems on the Internet.<p>As for RSA, it came out a couple years later their products were compromised various ways by the NSA. Then a couple years later the NSA lost control of its own hacking tools with the infamous Shadow Brokers release. Not only is building secure systems hard, but the US government actively works to undermine its own companies&#x27; security.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;idUSBRE9BJ1C220131220?irpc=932" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;idUSBRE9BJ1C220131220?irpc=9...</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;information-technology&#x2F;2014&#x2F;01&#x2F;how-the-nsa-may-have-put-a-backdoor-in-rsas-cryptography-a-technical-primer&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;information-technology&#x2F;2014&#x2F;01&#x2F;how-t...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The full story of the RSA hack can finally be told</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/the-full-story-of-the-stunning-rsa-hack-can-finally-be-told/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chinathrow</author><text>&gt; RSA executives told me that the part of their network responsible for manufacturing the SecurID hardware tokens was protected by an “air gap”—a total disconnection of computers from any machine that touches the internet. But in fact, Leetham says, one server on RSA’s internet-connected network was linked, through a firewall that allowed no other connections, to the seed warehouse on the manufacturing side.<p>That&#x27;s not really an air gap, isn&#x27;t it?</text></comment> |
7,599,192 | 7,598,575 | 1 | 3 | 7,595,461 | train | <story><title>The Worst Part of YC</title><url>http://blog.samaltman.com/the-worst-part-of-yc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wildermuthn</author><text>At West Point, I was one of ten cadets in my class of one thousand to make the parachute team. For some reason, the parachute team had become a symbol-status and a fast track to cadet success.<p>What&#x27;s interests me the most is that I had no idea, no clue, that the skydiving team was a fast-track to promotion. I just wanted to jump out of planes. That wasn&#x27;t the case with many of my teammates. We had some great talent on the skydiving team — the most talented men and women at West Point. But some of them hated jumping out of planes, and they did poorly.<p>Sama writes that the number and quality of YC applications has risen. That might not be a good thing. Talent and ambition aren&#x27;t the greatest indicators of startup success.<p>I don&#x27;t think its a coincidence that Dropbox, Reddit, AirBnb, Justin.tv, Loopt, and Stripe all came within the first few years of YC&#x27;s existence, and that YC&#x27;s more recent companies haven&#x27;t taken off in the same way. It might be because immensely talented people see YC as their avenue to success.<p>If being immensely talented and ambitious was the prime requisite for startup-success, then YC would be in a great position. But as I understand it, having talent and ambition don&#x27;t matter as much as having a determined, cohesive, and visionary team.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paul</author><text>In the early years of yc, people said there weren&#x27;t any good companies. It took years for Dropbox to become Dropbox. There are actually a lot more great founders and companies now, but it will be years before you realize it. That&#x27;s the nature of this business.<p>Your point about ambition is a good one though. Filtering out people who are just there for the prestige generally isn&#x27;t that hard though -- they have ways of self identifying :)</text></comment> | <story><title>The Worst Part of YC</title><url>http://blog.samaltman.com/the-worst-part-of-yc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wildermuthn</author><text>At West Point, I was one of ten cadets in my class of one thousand to make the parachute team. For some reason, the parachute team had become a symbol-status and a fast track to cadet success.<p>What&#x27;s interests me the most is that I had no idea, no clue, that the skydiving team was a fast-track to promotion. I just wanted to jump out of planes. That wasn&#x27;t the case with many of my teammates. We had some great talent on the skydiving team — the most talented men and women at West Point. But some of them hated jumping out of planes, and they did poorly.<p>Sama writes that the number and quality of YC applications has risen. That might not be a good thing. Talent and ambition aren&#x27;t the greatest indicators of startup success.<p>I don&#x27;t think its a coincidence that Dropbox, Reddit, AirBnb, Justin.tv, Loopt, and Stripe all came within the first few years of YC&#x27;s existence, and that YC&#x27;s more recent companies haven&#x27;t taken off in the same way. It might be because immensely talented people see YC as their avenue to success.<p>If being immensely talented and ambitious was the prime requisite for startup-success, then YC would be in a great position. But as I understand it, having talent and ambition don&#x27;t matter as much as having a determined, cohesive, and visionary team.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acgourley</author><text>Stripe went through YC four years ago. Give the newer companies some time.</text></comment> |
14,209,206 | 14,209,120 | 1 | 2 | 14,208,884 | train | <story><title>DJI Puts $145K Bounty on the Drone Pilots Who Were Disrupting Flights</title><url>http://www.improdrone.com/dji-puts-145000-bounty-drone-pilots-disrupting-flights/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nullnilvoid</author><text>&gt; Let’s not forget that DJI has software which limits the abilities of the drones based on the pilot’s location. For example, DJI has established that airports are no-fly zones. However, there are some ways that drone pilots can bypass this measure and fly without restriction from DJI.<p>DJI is going really far on this. They already have pre-installed software which restricts drones in no-fly zones. Even more, they are putting out a bounty program to that. I heard that there are some special electrical guns which can shoot down drones. It might be useful to deploy these in no-fly zones.</text></comment> | <story><title>DJI Puts $145K Bounty on the Drone Pilots Who Were Disrupting Flights</title><url>http://www.improdrone.com/dji-puts-145000-bounty-drone-pilots-disrupting-flights/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>salimmadjd</author><text>I&#x27;m so glad DJI is doing this. I&#x27;ve started flying drones in September of 2016. I use to be annoyed by them, but now as a pilot and a photographer, really love the unique perspectives drone footage gives me.<p>That said, I hear from many people who dislike drones (I can understand them since I was one, too) and all it takes is one or two people to ruin it for everyone else. So it&#x27;s really good DJI is taking the lead on this.</text></comment> |
28,844,138 | 28,844,001 | 1 | 2 | 28,840,066 | train | <story><title>Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as ‘ignition’ triggered in a lab</title><url>https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/228373/major-nuclear-fusion-milestone-reached-ignition/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>solarhoma</author><text>There is a lot wrong with your post.<p>&gt;They are not required to disclose the contents of the fracking wastewater fluid.<p>Majority of water used in hydro fracking is slick water. This is normal water with friction reducers added to it. Typically 1%. Though can change based on the design of the frack. These are maybe not disclosed to the public since they typically are proprietary formulas that each vendor creates on their own. Each wanting to protect their IP from other vendors supplying the friction reducers.<p>&gt;It gets pumped back down underground where it dissipates into the rest of the water system.<p>This is the most inaccurate and hyperbolic part of your response. It is markedly false. The slick water is typically reused after the well back flows. They store the water onsite for the remaining wells. Or transport to another pad for continued hydro fracking use. Any water that is produced during well production is pumped into non-human use reservoirs. These disposal wells are called SWD’s, saltwater disposals. The depths of the wells vary, in our field it was 7500’. Whereas freshwater wells for human and cattle use were 300’. Regulatory bodies strictly manage the creation of SWD’s with significant research and paperwork to show the reservoir you are disposing into is not or has ever been used for human consumption. The water at this reservoir will not magically make its way into the freshwater reservoir.<p>&gt;These people claim that it&#x27;s safe for decades when our computer models can&#x27;t predict the weather accurately next week.<p>This seems more emotionally driven than anything. Who are ‘these people’. How does this correlate to weather? I have worked with hundreds of wells that are +80 years old still in good standing. If the well integrity is in question a cement bond log is run, along with other logs. If it is found there are any discrepancies they are fixed. Or the well plugged and abandoned, is filled with cement and the wellhead removed.<p>I have not heard of fracking water ever being used for crops.
Apologies for any spelling or grammar errors as I am on my phone writing this message.</text></item><item><author>humaniania</author><text>Natural gas is only inexpensive because of fracking.<p>With fracking in the USA at least the people involved can set up an LLC that dissolves after the well runs out. They are not required to disclose the contents of the fracking wastewater fluid. It gets pumped back down underground where it could dissipate into the rest of the water system. These people claim that it&#x27;s safe for decades when our computer models can&#x27;t predict the weather accurately next week.<p>In California now they&#x27;re using fracking wastewater on crops because of the water shortages. Without disclosing what&#x27;s in it. And not testing for if that stuff ends up in the food. These people are using loopholes to take the profits now and leave society with the bills for cleanup and the health consequences. That isn&#x27;t sustainable or IMO fair or just. If the real cost of fossil fuels was clear up front they would not make sense.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latimes.com&#x2F;local&#x2F;california&#x2F;la-me-drought-oil-water-20150503-story.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latimes.com&#x2F;local&#x2F;california&#x2F;la-me-drought-oil-w...</a></text></item><item><author>rfrey</author><text>Meta-question about fusion energy -something I don&#x27;t understand about the movement. I spent a few years as CTO of a company providing heat-to-electricity plants. We financed and built them off high-heat plants like natural gas turbines. The &quot;fuel&quot; was heat going up the stack - so it was essentially free. We still couldn&#x27;t compete with conventional electricity plants, even with a $30&#x2F;tonne price on carbon in Canada.<p>Geothermal energy is the same: sustainable, long-life electricity with no &quot;fuel&quot; costs, but it costs 2-3x as much to build a geothermal plant (in most areas, depends on geology) as e.g. a natural gas turbine powered plant, so the overall cost of electricity is much higher and you can&#x27;t get financing.<p>How is fusion different? The fuel will be free and unlimited, but the &quot;levelized cost of electricity&quot;, dominated by the capital cost of the plant, will still be much higher than other sources of electricity. I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s a world -- even one where the onerous regulations go away and a market price on carbon is available -- where the LCOE of fusion power is less than that from natural gas, or even close.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SuoDuanDao</author><text>As someone who worked around fracking wells as a roughneck, I see a lot wrong with your post.<p>&gt;Majority of water used in hydro fracking is slick water. This is normal water with friction reducers added to it. Typically 1%.
This is like saying &quot;dihidrogen monoxide is the largest component of acid rain&quot;. Technically true, but the toxin is toxic enough even at low concentrations. You wouldn&#x27;t enjoy having it in your eyes no matter how much of it is water that day. This is frankly a strange argument for someone who&#x27;s worked with the stuff to make, it&#x27;s not quite H2S but nobody I worked with took the toxicity lightly.<p>&gt;The slick water is typically reused after the well back flows.
That is what&#x27;s told to the people in the office but it&#x27;s not reliable. A volume of fluid is pumped down the well, the same volume is pumped back up. So long as there&#x27;s no water at all downhole, you would recover only fracking fluid. Typically if people are worried about fracking, there is water downhole and no way of preventing mixing.<p>&gt;If it is found there are any discrepancies they are fixed.
The payment structure incentivises the field crews to under-report those kinds of errors. Some crews are diligent and take the reputational hit of reporting a fracking blowout, others simply kick some dirt over it. From my experience it&#x27;s about 50-50. And in the latter case it certainly does often land on an unfortunate farmer&#x27;s field.</text></comment> | <story><title>Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as ‘ignition’ triggered in a lab</title><url>https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/228373/major-nuclear-fusion-milestone-reached-ignition/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>solarhoma</author><text>There is a lot wrong with your post.<p>&gt;They are not required to disclose the contents of the fracking wastewater fluid.<p>Majority of water used in hydro fracking is slick water. This is normal water with friction reducers added to it. Typically 1%. Though can change based on the design of the frack. These are maybe not disclosed to the public since they typically are proprietary formulas that each vendor creates on their own. Each wanting to protect their IP from other vendors supplying the friction reducers.<p>&gt;It gets pumped back down underground where it dissipates into the rest of the water system.<p>This is the most inaccurate and hyperbolic part of your response. It is markedly false. The slick water is typically reused after the well back flows. They store the water onsite for the remaining wells. Or transport to another pad for continued hydro fracking use. Any water that is produced during well production is pumped into non-human use reservoirs. These disposal wells are called SWD’s, saltwater disposals. The depths of the wells vary, in our field it was 7500’. Whereas freshwater wells for human and cattle use were 300’. Regulatory bodies strictly manage the creation of SWD’s with significant research and paperwork to show the reservoir you are disposing into is not or has ever been used for human consumption. The water at this reservoir will not magically make its way into the freshwater reservoir.<p>&gt;These people claim that it&#x27;s safe for decades when our computer models can&#x27;t predict the weather accurately next week.<p>This seems more emotionally driven than anything. Who are ‘these people’. How does this correlate to weather? I have worked with hundreds of wells that are +80 years old still in good standing. If the well integrity is in question a cement bond log is run, along with other logs. If it is found there are any discrepancies they are fixed. Or the well plugged and abandoned, is filled with cement and the wellhead removed.<p>I have not heard of fracking water ever being used for crops.
Apologies for any spelling or grammar errors as I am on my phone writing this message.</text></item><item><author>humaniania</author><text>Natural gas is only inexpensive because of fracking.<p>With fracking in the USA at least the people involved can set up an LLC that dissolves after the well runs out. They are not required to disclose the contents of the fracking wastewater fluid. It gets pumped back down underground where it could dissipate into the rest of the water system. These people claim that it&#x27;s safe for decades when our computer models can&#x27;t predict the weather accurately next week.<p>In California now they&#x27;re using fracking wastewater on crops because of the water shortages. Without disclosing what&#x27;s in it. And not testing for if that stuff ends up in the food. These people are using loopholes to take the profits now and leave society with the bills for cleanup and the health consequences. That isn&#x27;t sustainable or IMO fair or just. If the real cost of fossil fuels was clear up front they would not make sense.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latimes.com&#x2F;local&#x2F;california&#x2F;la-me-drought-oil-water-20150503-story.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latimes.com&#x2F;local&#x2F;california&#x2F;la-me-drought-oil-w...</a></text></item><item><author>rfrey</author><text>Meta-question about fusion energy -something I don&#x27;t understand about the movement. I spent a few years as CTO of a company providing heat-to-electricity plants. We financed and built them off high-heat plants like natural gas turbines. The &quot;fuel&quot; was heat going up the stack - so it was essentially free. We still couldn&#x27;t compete with conventional electricity plants, even with a $30&#x2F;tonne price on carbon in Canada.<p>Geothermal energy is the same: sustainable, long-life electricity with no &quot;fuel&quot; costs, but it costs 2-3x as much to build a geothermal plant (in most areas, depends on geology) as e.g. a natural gas turbine powered plant, so the overall cost of electricity is much higher and you can&#x27;t get financing.<p>How is fusion different? The fuel will be free and unlimited, but the &quot;levelized cost of electricity&quot;, dominated by the capital cost of the plant, will still be much higher than other sources of electricity. I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s a world -- even one where the onerous regulations go away and a market price on carbon is available -- where the LCOE of fusion power is less than that from natural gas, or even close.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>specialp</author><text>&gt;&gt;They are not required to disclose the contents of the fracking wastewater fluid.<p>&gt;Majority of water used in hydro fracking is slick water. This is normal water with friction reducers added to it. Typically 1%. Though can change based on the design of the frack. These are maybe not disclosed to the public since they typically are proprietary formulas that each vendor creates on their own. Each wanting to protect their IP from other vendors supplying the friction reducers.<p>How does this make the claim that they are not required to disclose the contents of the waste water false? Are friction reducers mostly similar and non toxic? It is irrelevant that it is 99% water as most industrial waste is mostly water. If I pumped out water that was 99% water and 1% mercury it would be incredibly toxic. The issue is certain chemicals end up lingering in water and bio accumulating for a very long time.</text></comment> |
14,629,341 | 14,629,020 | 1 | 3 | 14,627,704 | train | <story><title>Wikimedia Foundation v. NSA</title><url>https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/06/23/wikimedia-v-nsa-present-future/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Markoff</author><text>you mean making huge profits from donations?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;the-intersect&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;02&#x2F;wikipedia-has-a-ton-of-money-so-why-is-it-begging-you-to-donate-yours&#x2F;?utm_term=.e8fbc81a9606" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;the-intersect&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12...</a></text></item><item><author>dmurawsky</author><text>Great article, thanks for doing what you do ;)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>I have a hard time choosing what&#x27;s the best thing to come out of the internet: WikiPedia or the Khan Academy.<p>If you&#x27;re so intent on smearing WikiPedia it would probably help you if you studied it for a bit before spouting off a bunch of nonsense in this thread. I get it: you don&#x27;t like WikiPedia because they <i>ask</i> you for a donation. Note that you&#x27;re under no obligation whatsoever to donate and that the content is yours for the taking.<p>As compared to say owning the Encyclopedia Britannica, which took on average a tree (or two) to print and was outdated the day you received it. On top of that it took up a huge shelf and cost as much as a car.</text></comment> | <story><title>Wikimedia Foundation v. NSA</title><url>https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/06/23/wikimedia-v-nsa-present-future/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Markoff</author><text>you mean making huge profits from donations?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;the-intersect&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;02&#x2F;wikipedia-has-a-ton-of-money-so-why-is-it-begging-you-to-donate-yours&#x2F;?utm_term=.e8fbc81a9606" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;the-intersect&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12...</a></text></item><item><author>dmurawsky</author><text>Great article, thanks for doing what you do ;)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justicezyx</author><text>Come on, FB makes way more money on an user by building social echo chamber and ads...<p>Wiki give user knowledge, probably one of the highest quality sources...</text></comment> |
22,002,376 | 22,002,339 | 1 | 3 | 22,001,822 | train | <story><title>Gandi loses data, customers told to use their own backups</title><url>https://status.gandi.net/timeline/events/2109</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kryogen1c</author><text>This is god damn unbelievable<p>&quot;Andrea, sorry about that and the incident. If we led you to believe that you had nothing to do on your side when warned multiple times to make your back ups, then we&#x27;ll have to make it clearer, and stop assuming that it&#x27;s an industry wide knowledge.&quot;</text></item><item><author>EnderMB</author><text>Oof, this Twitter thread looks particularly bad, especially the response from the official Gandi account.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;andreaganduglia&#x2F;status&#x2F;1215199147701231616" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;andreaganduglia&#x2F;status&#x2F;12151991477012316...</a><p>While I appreciate that there are real people behind these companies that are probably having a really rough time right now, the criticism that Gandi are getting as a company is justified - and if Gandi are truly a &quot;no bullshit&quot; company they need to put something out to their customers asap.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alpaca128</author><text>Big words for a company that&#x27;s in trouble for not backing up data themselves.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gandi loses data, customers told to use their own backups</title><url>https://status.gandi.net/timeline/events/2109</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kryogen1c</author><text>This is god damn unbelievable<p>&quot;Andrea, sorry about that and the incident. If we led you to believe that you had nothing to do on your side when warned multiple times to make your back ups, then we&#x27;ll have to make it clearer, and stop assuming that it&#x27;s an industry wide knowledge.&quot;</text></item><item><author>EnderMB</author><text>Oof, this Twitter thread looks particularly bad, especially the response from the official Gandi account.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;andreaganduglia&#x2F;status&#x2F;1215199147701231616" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;andreaganduglia&#x2F;status&#x2F;12151991477012316...</a><p>While I appreciate that there are real people behind these companies that are probably having a really rough time right now, the criticism that Gandi are getting as a company is justified - and if Gandi are truly a &quot;no bullshit&quot; company they need to put something out to their customers asap.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmix</author><text>After another support person made a joke in response to his very serious post.<p>This is one of the worst responses I’ve ever seen from a company, and I’m not being hyperbolic.</text></comment> |
7,646,177 | 7,645,579 | 1 | 3 | 7,645,124 | train | <story><title>Today was the last day of Nokia as we knew it</title><url>http://kneeland.me/2014/04/24/the-end/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frik</author><text>The Nokia fate will be remembered as hostile takeover. Everything worked out in the favor of Microsoft in the end. Though Windows Phone&#x2F;Tablet have low market share, a lot lower than expected.<p>* Stephen Elop the former Microsoft employee (head of the Business Division) and later Nokia CEO with his infamous &quot;Burning Platform&quot; memo: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Elop#CEO_of_Nokia" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Stephen_Elop#CEO_of_Nokia</a><p>* Some former Nokia employees called it &quot;Elop = hostile takeover of a company for a minimum price through CEO infiltration&quot;:
<a href="http://gizmodo.com/how-nokia-employees-are-reacting-to-the-microsoft-takeo-1243832372" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gizmodo.com&#x2F;how-nokia-employees-are-reacting-to-the-m...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kyrra</author><text>But Nokia was a company that was already starting to falter when Elop came on board. What else could the company have done to survive? Their options seem limited from what we know about the marketplace. They could have release an android phone, but then they just would have been fighting for a piece of the pie that Samsung, Moto, and other phone makers are eating. They could have stayed with their phone OS and probably would have had just about the same fate as picking up Windows Mobile.<p>Maybe they would have had more sales with an Android phone, but I&#x27;m not sure it would have made a bit enough difference to prevent this buyout. Elop set Nokia up to be bought out by being a major windows phone maker. It may have been a better long-term bet than Android.</text></comment> | <story><title>Today was the last day of Nokia as we knew it</title><url>http://kneeland.me/2014/04/24/the-end/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frik</author><text>The Nokia fate will be remembered as hostile takeover. Everything worked out in the favor of Microsoft in the end. Though Windows Phone&#x2F;Tablet have low market share, a lot lower than expected.<p>* Stephen Elop the former Microsoft employee (head of the Business Division) and later Nokia CEO with his infamous &quot;Burning Platform&quot; memo: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Elop#CEO_of_Nokia" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Stephen_Elop#CEO_of_Nokia</a><p>* Some former Nokia employees called it &quot;Elop = hostile takeover of a company for a minimum price through CEO infiltration&quot;:
<a href="http://gizmodo.com/how-nokia-employees-are-reacting-to-the-microsoft-takeo-1243832372" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gizmodo.com&#x2F;how-nokia-employees-are-reacting-to-the-m...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tinco</author><text>Lower than expected? Whose expectance? Given Microsofts track record in mobile devices I think no one expected Microsoft to really be able to compete. And given Nokia&#x27;s track record in smart phones, nobody expected Nokia to be able to push Microsoft up either. But as it is now, it seems they&#x27;ve actually been able to. They&#x27;ve managed to punch a small but significant hole in the Android market, against all odds, by building some truly excellent products.<p>Who&#x27;d have thought Microsoft would some day produce an integrated mobile product that you could prefer over an Apple product without being made out a fool?</text></comment> |
28,838,279 | 28,836,918 | 1 | 2 | 28,836,382 | train | <story><title>Use Raspberry Pi as Airplay server to screen mirror on TVs, monitors, projectors</title><url>https://github.com/rahul-thakoor/air-pi-play</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>isoprophlex</author><text>Very cute that there&#x27;s a one click deployment using some semi-magic third party service, but it feels kinda disingenuous to not link to the repo that&#x27;s doing the actual heavy lifting.[] The repo submitted to HN is just a bunch of config files.<p>[] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;FD-&#x2F;RPiPlay" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;FD-&#x2F;RPiPlay</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dewey</author><text>&gt; Very cute that there&#x27;s a one click deployment using some semi-magic third party service<p>The author of the repository seems to work for that third party service so feels more like a proof of concept for deployments to that service.</text></comment> | <story><title>Use Raspberry Pi as Airplay server to screen mirror on TVs, monitors, projectors</title><url>https://github.com/rahul-thakoor/air-pi-play</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>isoprophlex</author><text>Very cute that there&#x27;s a one click deployment using some semi-magic third party service, but it feels kinda disingenuous to not link to the repo that&#x27;s doing the actual heavy lifting.[] The repo submitted to HN is just a bunch of config files.<p>[] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;FD-&#x2F;RPiPlay" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;FD-&#x2F;RPiPlay</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>websap</author><text>This is the problem with open source, anytime someone tries to submit a finished solution - someone will come out of the woodwork and blame them for not attributing enough. In this case the link exists, but it isn&#x27;t in the favorable order.</text></comment> |
20,012,053 | 20,011,116 | 1 | 3 | 20,009,838 | train | <story><title>The Surprising Benefits of Relentlessly Auditing Your Life</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/opinion/gender-marriage-spreadsheet.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mettamage</author><text>When I used to do conscious self improvement, I journaled. I simply answered the prompt: what did I do to achieve my goal today, and what can I do better?<p>This had the same effect as their quantitative approach: you start to see patterns.<p>I’d suggest: the profound enabler of change isn’t the quantitative aspect of it, it is that you’re logging data in the first place.<p>Our brains can’t log that much. Notepads and spreadsheets can.<p>Of course, quantitative va qualitative have some trade offs, but the low hanging fruit is data logging, not Excel.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Surprising Benefits of Relentlessly Auditing Your Life</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/opinion/gender-marriage-spreadsheet.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>badpun</author><text>&gt; Our spreadsheets hammered home that what contributed most to our happiness was time spent together or with friends — while, crucially, not working — and there was no way to get more of that if we continued to live in the Bay Area, one of the most expensive parts of the country. So I proposed an idea that would have seemed radical were there not so much data backing it: “I think you should quit your job, we should sell our house, and we should move somewhere cheaper,” I told my husband matter-of-factly one day. So we did.<p>Will be kind of hard to meet with friends, as they have all stayed in the Bay Area?</text></comment> |
41,727,826 | 41,725,146 | 1 | 2 | 41,694,767 | train | <story><title>A Tour of Hell – Shell scripting Haskell dialect</title><url>https://chrisdone.com/posts/tour-of-hell/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chubot</author><text>FWIW there are several Haskell and OCaml shell projects on this wiki page, which is editable:<p>Internal DSLs for Shell - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;oils-for-unix&#x2F;oils&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Internal-DSLs-for-Shell">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;oils-for-unix&#x2F;oils&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Internal-DSLs-for...</a><p>and ones in many other languages like Scheme and Lisp<p>e.g.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jgoerzen&#x2F;hsh&#x2F;wiki">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jgoerzen&#x2F;hsh&#x2F;wiki</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;luke-clifton&#x2F;shh&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;shh">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;luke-clifton&#x2F;shh&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;shh</a><p>And also a page of alternative shells:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;oils-for-unix&#x2F;oils&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Alternative-Shells">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;oils-for-unix&#x2F;oils&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Alternative-Shell...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>A Tour of Hell – Shell scripting Haskell dialect</title><url>https://chrisdone.com/posts/tour-of-hell/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonmic</author><text>As a haskeller, and shell scripter, I find this a refreshing and exciting experiment.
Much of the goodness of haskell, but with a much tighter focus and smaller scope.
No imports, language pragmas, packages or build tools needed;
all of the building blocks listed on one short page, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrisdone.github.io&#x2F;hell&#x2F;api" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrisdone.github.io&#x2F;hell&#x2F;api</a>.
More platform independent, robust, and regular than shell.
Potentially a nice learning language &#x2F; stepping stone to haskell itself.<p>It&#x27;s quite verbose right now, and I don&#x27;t see much networking API yet, but it&#x27;s just starting. I could see it easily growing into something very nice.</text></comment> |
20,644,507 | 20,644,484 | 1 | 3 | 20,643,883 | train | <story><title>Luxembourg to be first European country to legalise cannabis</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/07/luxembourg-to-be-first-european-country-to-legalise-cannabis</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reallydontask</author><text>A genuine question, Aren&#x27;t all EU citizens supposed to be treated equally across the EU?<p>How would such a ban work?</text></item><item><author>dep_b</author><text>&gt; Schneider said the legislation was likely to include a ban on non-residents buying cannabis in order to dissuade drug-tourism.<p>Given the fact they&#x27;re sharing a border with France: probably a good idea.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phaemon</author><text>They are being treated equally. A citizen of France who is resident in Luxembourg would be able to purchase. A citizen of Luxembourg who is resident in France, wouldn&#x27;t.<p>You can have rules that apply only to residents, but they have to be applied to <i>any</i> resident.</text></comment> | <story><title>Luxembourg to be first European country to legalise cannabis</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/07/luxembourg-to-be-first-european-country-to-legalise-cannabis</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reallydontask</author><text>A genuine question, Aren&#x27;t all EU citizens supposed to be treated equally across the EU?<p>How would such a ban work?</text></item><item><author>dep_b</author><text>&gt; Schneider said the legislation was likely to include a ban on non-residents buying cannabis in order to dissuade drug-tourism.<p>Given the fact they&#x27;re sharing a border with France: probably a good idea.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>unilynx</author><text>We&#x27;ll see soon enough.. we just need someone to get arrested first.<p>It&#x27;s a good thing they picked Luxembourg for this experiment, it will cut back on the travel time for everyone involved getting to the ECJ</text></comment> |
23,512,560 | 23,509,836 | 1 | 3 | 23,509,366 | train | <story><title>High doses of ketamine can temporarily switch off the brain, say researchers</title><url>https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/high-doses-of-ketamine-can-temporarily-switch-off-the-brain-say-researchers</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sibeliuss</author><text>My experience with Ketamine was that it was simply <i>too much fun, too weird, and felt too good</i> -- I had to distance myself from it, regarding it like some kind of psychedelic heroin. I can understand why it&#x27;s addictive.<p>However, it does have its purpose. I&#x27;ve heard of a lot of people cleaning up their lives through its application.<p>And reading about it is always fascinating -- Stanislav Grof: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;realitysandwich.com&#x2F;321100&#x2F;my-ketamine-journeys-or-ketamine-and-the-enchantment-of-other-worlds&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;realitysandwich.com&#x2F;321100&#x2F;my-ketamine-journeys-or-k...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>High doses of ketamine can temporarily switch off the brain, say researchers</title><url>https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/high-doses-of-ketamine-can-temporarily-switch-off-the-brain-say-researchers</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hprotagonist</author><text>depression: have you tried turning it off and then back on again?<p>tongue in cheek, but i think the more we learn about mechanism of action the more it’s not the worst 1st order approximation.</text></comment> |
30,940,420 | 30,940,425 | 1 | 3 | 30,939,282 | train | <story><title>Andrew Ng: Unbiggen AI</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/andrew-ng-data-centric-ai</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vasco</author><text>Interestingly, when you learn how to drive you need to see approximately one example and you&#x27;re able to identify them all.</text></item><item><author>itissid</author><text>That is the problem with generalization and cop outs like these. It&#x27;s no good to people in the field doing actual work where the devil is in the detail.<p>Big data is fairly important to a lot of things, for example I was listening to Tesla&#x27;s use of Deep net models where they mentioned that there were literally so many variations of Stop Signs that they needed to learn what was really in the &quot;tail&quot; of the distribution of Stop Sign types to construct reliable AI</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teruakohatu</author><text>That is called transfer learning. You might only need to see one photo of a sign to identify it in real life (although arguably learner drivers take a while to notice signs) but that is only because you have been training on identifying generic objects since you left the womb.<p>You brain already knows how to select the most important features of a sign. The shape, the size and the color. You have also learned how to understand the text on the sign.<p>A new born baby does not have that ability.<p>This is applied in ANN as well. Transfer learning is using a pre-trained neural network, which has already learned identifying objects, and then using it to train on identifying a new, usually smaller, set of objects using, usually, a lot less training data. That is what Andrew is talking about in the article.</text></comment> | <story><title>Andrew Ng: Unbiggen AI</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/andrew-ng-data-centric-ai</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vasco</author><text>Interestingly, when you learn how to drive you need to see approximately one example and you&#x27;re able to identify them all.</text></item><item><author>itissid</author><text>That is the problem with generalization and cop outs like these. It&#x27;s no good to people in the field doing actual work where the devil is in the detail.<p>Big data is fairly important to a lot of things, for example I was listening to Tesla&#x27;s use of Deep net models where they mentioned that there were literally so many variations of Stop Signs that they needed to learn what was really in the &quot;tail&quot; of the distribution of Stop Sign types to construct reliable AI</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>itissid</author><text>It does feel though that a model like the human mind will be very fundamentally different from any of the models of today. No?<p>Like the NN State of the art models of today are so different from state of the art 12 or so years ago which was SVMs.</text></comment> |
16,639,005 | 16,638,668 | 1 | 2 | 16,638,010 | train | <story><title>Michał Zalewski, Director Information Security Engineering, leaves Google</title><url>https://twitter.com/lcamtuf/status/976307141177884672</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmix</author><text>If you don&#x27;t know who this is, he wrote one of my favourite books on web (browser) security: &quot;The Tangled Web&quot; [1].<p>Another lesser known book by him is also worth a read: &quot;Silence on the Wire&quot; that takes a look at the full information security stack from the keyboard you type on, to the wires the data transits, to the internet protocols, etc [2] and looking at how each stage exposes&#x2F;protects data.<p>And has quite an interesting history in infosec beyond that [3].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Tangled-Web-Securing-Modern-Applications&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1593273886&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Tangled-Web-Securing-Modern-Applicati...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Silence-Wire-Passive-Reconnaissance-Indirect&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1593270461&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Silence-Wire-Passive-Reconnaissance-I...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Micha%C5%82_Zalewski" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Micha%C5%82_Zalewski</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjf</author><text>If you don&#x27;t know who this is, read his CV: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lcamtuf.coredump.cx&#x2F;cv-web-en.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lcamtuf.coredump.cx&#x2F;cv-web-en.pdf</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Michał Zalewski, Director Information Security Engineering, leaves Google</title><url>https://twitter.com/lcamtuf/status/976307141177884672</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmix</author><text>If you don&#x27;t know who this is, he wrote one of my favourite books on web (browser) security: &quot;The Tangled Web&quot; [1].<p>Another lesser known book by him is also worth a read: &quot;Silence on the Wire&quot; that takes a look at the full information security stack from the keyboard you type on, to the wires the data transits, to the internet protocols, etc [2] and looking at how each stage exposes&#x2F;protects data.<p>And has quite an interesting history in infosec beyond that [3].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Tangled-Web-Securing-Modern-Applications&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1593273886&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Tangled-Web-Securing-Modern-Applicati...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Silence-Wire-Passive-Reconnaissance-Indirect&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1593270461&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Silence-Wire-Passive-Reconnaissance-I...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Micha%C5%82_Zalewski" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Micha%C5%82_Zalewski</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iooi</author><text>He also had a pretty popular post here a while back about prepping for doomsday [1], interesting read.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15110850" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15110850</a></text></comment> |
41,503,913 | 41,375,955 | 1 | 3 | 41,369,705 | train | <story><title>Cerebras Inference: AI at Instant Speed</title><url>https://cerebras.ai/blog/introducing-cerebras-inference-ai-at-instant-speed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>russ</author><text>It’s insanely fast.<p>Here’s an AI voice assistant I built that uses it:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cerebras.vercel.app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cerebras.vercel.app</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joshhug</author><text>That was interesting. I asked it to try to say something in another language, and she read it in a thick American accent. No surprise. Then I asked her to sing, and she said something like &quot;asterisk in a robotic singing voice asterisk...&quot;, and then later explained that she&#x27;s just text to speech. Ah, ok, that&#x27;s about what I expected.<p>But then I asked her to integrate sin(x) * e^x and got this bizarre answer that started out as speech sounds but then degenerated into chaos. Out of curiosity, why and how did she end up generating samples that sounded rather unlike speech?<p>Here&#x27;s a recording: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;wWhxF7ybiAc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;wWhxF7ybiAc</a><p>FWIW, I can get this behavior pretty consistently if I chat with her a while about her voice capabilities and then go into a math question.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cerebras Inference: AI at Instant Speed</title><url>https://cerebras.ai/blog/introducing-cerebras-inference-ai-at-instant-speed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>russ</author><text>It’s insanely fast.<p>Here’s an AI voice assistant I built that uses it:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cerebras.vercel.app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cerebras.vercel.app</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>unraveller</author><text>Fantastic demo. Do you know what&#x27;s the difference between your stack and the livekit demo? [1] it shows your voice as text so you can see when you have to correct it.<p>Llama3 with ears just dropped (direct voice token input) which should be awesome with cerebras [2]<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kitt.livekit.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kitt.livekit.io</a>
[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;homebrew.ltd&#x2F;blog&#x2F;llama3-just-got-ears" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;homebrew.ltd&#x2F;blog&#x2F;llama3-just-got-ears</a></text></comment> |
11,781,310 | 11,781,415 | 1 | 3 | 11,781,053 | train | <story><title>Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour</title><url>https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/735924335412543488</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>These are the statutory fair use factors the jury was required to consider (17 U.S.C. 107):<p>(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;<p>(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;<p>(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and<p>(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.<p>It&#x27;s a somewhat surprising result, because two of the factors weigh heavily against Google (it&#x27;s a commercial work, and was important to Android gaining developer market-share). Oracle&#x27;s strategy going forward, both in post-trial motions and in any subsequent appeal, will be based on arguing that no rational jury could have applied these factors to the undisputed facts of the case and concluded that the fair use test was met.<p>It&#x27;s also not a particularly satisfying result for anybody. If API&#x27;s are copyrightable, then I can&#x27;t think of a better case for protecting them than in this one, where Google created a commercial product for profit and there was no research or scientific motivation. It wasn&#x27;t even really a case (like say, Samba) where copying was necessary to interoperate with a closed, proprietary system. Davlik isn&#x27;t drop-in compatible with the JVM anyway.<p>That makes Oracle&#x27;s win on the subject matter issue basically a pyrrhic victory for anyone looking to protect their APIs. They&#x27;re protectable, but can&#x27;t be protected in any realistic scenario.<p>And if you&#x27;re in the camp that believes APIs should not be protected, this precedent--if it stands--means that you&#x27;ll have to shoulder the expense of going to trial on the fair use issue before winning on the merits.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dctoedt</author><text>As to factor number 1, the purpose and character of the infringing use: In the <i>2 Live Crew &#x2F; Pretty Woman</i> case, the Supreme Court held that just because an infringing use is commercial, that doesn&#x27;t automatically mean it&#x27;s unfair (although it is indeed an important factor). [0]<p>As to factor number 2, the nature of the copyrighted work: For the last 20 years or so, courts have been backing away from the expansive approach of <i>Whelan v. Jaslow</i> and instead using a <i>Computer Associates v. Altai</i> &quot;abstraction, filtration, comparison&quot; analysis; in the end, courts typically hold that copyright protection for <i>functional</i> aspects of software is &quot;thin.&quot; See, e.g., UC law professor (and MacArthur &quot;genius grant&quot; recipient) Pam Samuelson&#x27;s 2013 review of the case law. [1]<p>From what I&#x27;ve read of the facts, number 3 -- the amount and substantiality of the portion used from the copyrighted work in relation to the work as a whole -- might have weighed heavily in Google&#x27;s favor.<p>As to number 4, I didn&#x27;t get a sense whether or not the evidence showed that Android has had a material adverse effect on the market for Java; that weighed heavily in the Supreme Court&#x27;s thinking in the <i>2 Live Crew</i> case.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;supreme.justia.com&#x2F;cases&#x2F;federal&#x2F;us&#x2F;510&#x2F;569&#x2F;case.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;supreme.justia.com&#x2F;cases&#x2F;federal&#x2F;us&#x2F;510&#x2F;569&#x2F;case.htm...</a><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu&#x2F;cgi&#x2F;viewcontent.cgi?article=1045&amp;context=nulr" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu&#x2F;cgi&#x2F;viewcontent...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour</title><url>https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/735924335412543488</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>These are the statutory fair use factors the jury was required to consider (17 U.S.C. 107):<p>(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;<p>(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;<p>(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and<p>(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.<p>It&#x27;s a somewhat surprising result, because two of the factors weigh heavily against Google (it&#x27;s a commercial work, and was important to Android gaining developer market-share). Oracle&#x27;s strategy going forward, both in post-trial motions and in any subsequent appeal, will be based on arguing that no rational jury could have applied these factors to the undisputed facts of the case and concluded that the fair use test was met.<p>It&#x27;s also not a particularly satisfying result for anybody. If API&#x27;s are copyrightable, then I can&#x27;t think of a better case for protecting them than in this one, where Google created a commercial product for profit and there was no research or scientific motivation. It wasn&#x27;t even really a case (like say, Samba) where copying was necessary to interoperate with a closed, proprietary system. Davlik isn&#x27;t drop-in compatible with the JVM anyway.<p>That makes Oracle&#x27;s win on the subject matter issue basically a pyrrhic victory for anyone looking to protect their APIs. They&#x27;re protectable, but can&#x27;t be protected in any realistic scenario.<p>And if you&#x27;re in the camp that believes APIs should not be protected, this precedent--if it stands--means that you&#x27;ll have to shoulder the expense of going to trial on the fair use issue before winning on the merits.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>magicalist</author><text>&gt; <i>If API&#x27;s are copyrightable</i><p>&gt; <i>And if you&#x27;re in the camp that believes APIs should not be protected, this precedent--if it stands--means that you&#x27;ll have to shoulder the expense of going to trial on the fair use issue before winning on the merits.</i><p>worth remembering that since that decision was made by the Federal Circuit, it has no bearing on the rest of the court system when it comes to copyright. There is no place where &quot;APIs are copyrightable&quot; is binding precedent.<p>Any lawsuits that don&#x27;t end up in the Federal Circuit (which pure copyright suits never do) will have to start from &quot;are APIs copyrightable?&quot; before having to make any sort of fair use defense.</text></comment> |
39,960,691 | 39,956,735 | 1 | 3 | 39,956,008 | train | <story><title>WinBtrfs – an open-source btrfs driver for Windows</title><url>https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>poisonborz</author><text>Wanted to use it for a while but a glance at the github issues was enough to nope out. BSODs, lockups, usage spikes, corruption. I so much wish for a stable btrfs&#x2F;zfs driver, I&#x27;d gladly throw my credit card at it. I don&#x27;t get why these things don&#x27;t get more traction.</text></comment> | <story><title>WinBtrfs – an open-source btrfs driver for Windows</title><url>https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Related:<p><i>WinBtrfs – A Windows driver for the next-generation Linux filesystem Btrfs</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15177002">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15177002</a> - Sept 2017 (100 comments)<p><i>WinBtrfs v0.7</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12794214">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12794214</a> - Oct 2016 (1 comment)</text></comment> |
35,358,546 | 35,355,559 | 1 | 2 | 35,324,961 | train | <story><title>The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10 as a Linux Laptop</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/10/thinkpad_x1c_g10_linux/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stncls</author><text>Periodic reminder: if you plan on using Linux, before buying any laptop, <i>always</i> check the Arch Linux wiki first.<p>I don&#x27;t even run Arch, but in my experience, the Arch wikis for hardware support are amazing: complete, accurate, and to the point. For laptops, they start with a small table indicating what works and what does not. Then concise but precise explanations of the pain points. And whenever a fix exists, it is explained in a way that will make it work not only on Arch, but often also on other distros.<p>Take this very laptop for example, the X1 Carbon Gen10. The Arch wiki entry [1] has all the information found in the OP, but it cuts right to the point without any fluff. And then it adds technical explanations and workarounds.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.archlinux.org&#x2F;title&#x2F;Lenovo_ThinkPad_X1_Carbon_(Gen_10)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.archlinux.org&#x2F;title&#x2F;Lenovo_ThinkPad_X1_Carbon_(...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thomastjeffery</author><text>The only place I have found better documentation is the Gentoo wiki: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.gentoo.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Main_Page" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.gentoo.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Main_Page</a><p>The Gentoo wiki illustrates to me that Linux is about <i>constructive</i> solutions, not crowd sourced testing. If I have a Windows problem, I Google for the magic incantation that was inferred by a thousand desperate disparate voices. If I have a Linux problem, I learn about the components I am using, and how they are intended to behave and fit together.</text></comment> | <story><title>The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10 as a Linux Laptop</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/10/thinkpad_x1c_g10_linux/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stncls</author><text>Periodic reminder: if you plan on using Linux, before buying any laptop, <i>always</i> check the Arch Linux wiki first.<p>I don&#x27;t even run Arch, but in my experience, the Arch wikis for hardware support are amazing: complete, accurate, and to the point. For laptops, they start with a small table indicating what works and what does not. Then concise but precise explanations of the pain points. And whenever a fix exists, it is explained in a way that will make it work not only on Arch, but often also on other distros.<p>Take this very laptop for example, the X1 Carbon Gen10. The Arch wiki entry [1] has all the information found in the OP, but it cuts right to the point without any fluff. And then it adds technical explanations and workarounds.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.archlinux.org&#x2F;title&#x2F;Lenovo_ThinkPad_X1_Carbon_(Gen_10)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.archlinux.org&#x2F;title&#x2F;Lenovo_ThinkPad_X1_Carbon_(...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>Another periodic reminder: Whenever you buy a new laptop don&#x27;t just nuke the Windows install that comes out of the box and go directly to installing Linux, but boot into it first and let Windows Update install all firmware updates as those updates might not be available under Linux.</text></comment> |
20,900,280 | 20,897,286 | 1 | 2 | 20,889,772 | train | <story><title>Slow Mornings May Be a Secret to Tech-Life Balance</title><url>https://elemental.medium.com/why-slow-mornings-may-be-the-secret-to-tech-life-balance-b44c2139963b</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>irrational</author><text>I get up at 5am to start getting the kids up and ready for school (high schoolers first, then elementary schoolers, then middle schoolers). Everyone is finally at school by 9:15am and I can head in for work. I get home around 6pm and get the little kids in bed by 8pm. 8-8:30pm is me time. Then I get ready for bed and am asleep by 9pm.<p>I can&#x27;t imagine what a slow morning (or evening!) would even be like. I&#x27;d appreciate it if someone could add about 6 more hours to every day.</text></comment> | <story><title>Slow Mornings May Be a Secret to Tech-Life Balance</title><url>https://elemental.medium.com/why-slow-mornings-may-be-the-secret-to-tech-life-balance-b44c2139963b</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>abakker</author><text>Alternative: slow afternoons? I mean, my routine usually has me start with tech&#x2F;work at 6am, but I wrap up around 2:30 and put some hours outdoors or in my other hobbies.<p>I think the important part is just not spending ALL DAY doing any one thing.<p>My grandma has a saying - &quot;Everything in moderation, including moderation&quot;</text></comment> |
368,633 | 368,505 | 1 | 3 | 368,138 | train | <story><title>The IT Contract from Hell</title><url>http://www.itcontractor.com/Articles_IR35_News_Advice/view_article.asp?id_no=4842</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>E-gad. I wouldn't want to work with any of these jerks, including the author. What kind of punk keeps a diary of how bad his contract is?<p>I've never had a bad contract -- and I've been in situations more stressful than this. A good attitude, good people skills (fundies a problem? Yeesh. What a piece of cake), and the ability to say "no" will fix about anything.<p>But I have worked with a lot of folks who were smarter than everybody else, who kept a running list of grievances, who had to work with poor managers.<p>Contracts are like playing cards. Each time you get a different combination of people, skills, and faults. I can imagine myself walking into a job with such a piss-poor manager: you either convince them that you are working to cover up for them and make them look good or you fold your cards and find another contract. Sulking for 5 months isn't much of a life. Life is short.<p>It was a bad contract, yes. But it takes two parties to continue something that painful. The author bears quite a bit of responsibility (and needs to grow up), in my opinion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thomasmallen</author><text>&#62; What kind of punk keeps a diary of how bad his contract is?<p>An IT guy who has nothing better to do because they won't let him go online. Somebody who's working in hell and has one place to truly vent. Someone with self-restraint? This guy's unbelievably patient; I might've been out of there in a week. Looks like the catharsis paid off...give him a break.</text></comment> | <story><title>The IT Contract from Hell</title><url>http://www.itcontractor.com/Articles_IR35_News_Advice/view_article.asp?id_no=4842</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>E-gad. I wouldn't want to work with any of these jerks, including the author. What kind of punk keeps a diary of how bad his contract is?<p>I've never had a bad contract -- and I've been in situations more stressful than this. A good attitude, good people skills (fundies a problem? Yeesh. What a piece of cake), and the ability to say "no" will fix about anything.<p>But I have worked with a lot of folks who were smarter than everybody else, who kept a running list of grievances, who had to work with poor managers.<p>Contracts are like playing cards. Each time you get a different combination of people, skills, and faults. I can imagine myself walking into a job with such a piss-poor manager: you either convince them that you are working to cover up for them and make them look good or you fold your cards and find another contract. Sulking for 5 months isn't much of a life. Life is short.<p>It was a bad contract, yes. But it takes two parties to continue something that painful. The author bears quite a bit of responsibility (and needs to grow up), in my opinion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tdavis</author><text><i>Sulking for 5 months isn't much of a life. Life is short.</i><p>Exactly my thoughts. The author's tolerance for ignorance and blatant hostility is far greater than mine. I would have booked a flight back home as soon as I heard "We don't take the lord's name in vain." Life is too short to deal with such a low caliber of human being on a daily basis, especially for such a long time.</text></comment> |
10,786,491 | 10,784,646 | 1 | 2 | 10,781,610 | train | <story><title>Kim Dotcom loses extradition case</title><url>http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/75407880/kim-dotcom-loses-extradition-case</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>takeda</author><text>I&#x27;m still puzzled how he can be extradited if he is not US citizen and did not commit any crime on US soil.</text></item><item><author>downandout</author><text>He can still appeal the case to a higher court in New Zealand, and may have a chance there. Copyright infringement isn&#x27;t extraditable from New Zealand, because it&#x27;s not a crime there. To counteract this problem, the US also charged him with conspiracy to commit a crime and money laundering, which <i>are</i> extraditable offenses in New Zealand. However, those charges are wholly dependent upon the main copyright infringement charge. The conspiracy charge is based upon conspiring with others to commit copyright infringement, and the money laundering charge is based upon his use of the proceeds of an alleged crime - namely, copyright infringement.<p>Based upon this, a higher court may very well reverse the lower court&#x27;s decision. Kim Dotcom isn&#x27;t going anywhere until he has exhausted all of his extradition appeals.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeza</author><text>Hew Raymond Griffiths, had never been to the US. He was extradited from Australia to the US for something that isn&#x27;t considered a crime in Australia.<p>The irony is this part:
&quot;Griffiths finally returned to Australia on 2 March 2008, after 5 weeks as an illegal alien in the US immigration detention system following his release from prison on 26 January 2008 (Australia Day). A condition of his repatriation to Australia was that he never again re-enter the United States of America, a country he had never visited before being extradited to it.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hew_Raymond_Griffiths" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hew_Raymond_Griffiths</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Kim Dotcom loses extradition case</title><url>http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/75407880/kim-dotcom-loses-extradition-case</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>takeda</author><text>I&#x27;m still puzzled how he can be extradited if he is not US citizen and did not commit any crime on US soil.</text></item><item><author>downandout</author><text>He can still appeal the case to a higher court in New Zealand, and may have a chance there. Copyright infringement isn&#x27;t extraditable from New Zealand, because it&#x27;s not a crime there. To counteract this problem, the US also charged him with conspiracy to commit a crime and money laundering, which <i>are</i> extraditable offenses in New Zealand. However, those charges are wholly dependent upon the main copyright infringement charge. The conspiracy charge is based upon conspiring with others to commit copyright infringement, and the money laundering charge is based upon his use of the proceeds of an alleged crime - namely, copyright infringement.<p>Based upon this, a higher court may very well reverse the lower court&#x27;s decision. Kim Dotcom isn&#x27;t going anywhere until he has exhausted all of his extradition appeals.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lettergram</author><text>I&#x27;m left scratching my head at this as well. I&#x27;m assuming (without reading into it) they are arguing that it was U.S. copy righted material that was taken, and distributed on U.S. soil (i.e. the internet).<p>Julian Assange faces similar offense[1], though in this case they are claiming national security as opposed to copy right infringement.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Julian_Assange" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Julian_Assange</a></text></comment> |
16,766,087 | 16,764,506 | 1 | 2 | 16,764,039 | train | <story><title>How kids in a low-income country use laptops: lessons from Madagascar</title><url>https://theconversation.com/how-kids-in-a-low-income-country-use-laptops-lessons-from-madagascar-93305</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codetrotter</author><text>&gt; But there was one marked difference: computer use in Madagascar tended to be a collective rather than an individual practice. Children and their families would gather around one laptop to play educational games, take photos or make videos. Computers were being used to strengthen existing social relations among siblings, parents and peers.<p>I think it used to be like this for a lot of people in the developed world as well when computers were new and most people did not have computers and those that did had only one in the whole household.<p>Nowadays a lot of people including the children have a smartphone each and the household might have one or more iPads and up to several laptops. And of course a PlayStation or an XBOX.<p>I don’t have children yet, but when I get children I hope to show them programming and involve them in what I do with computers and to show interest in what they are doing and to encourage them to be creative.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dahart</author><text>&gt; I don’t have children yet, but when I get children I hope to show them programming and involve them in what I do with computers and to show interest in what they are doing and to encourage them to be creative.<p>I had the same hope for my children (now 12 &amp; 14), so I let them start using devices &amp; playing games when they were 3 (even gave my older kid the first rev of the OLPC laptop). To a large degree, I regret the decision to start that early.<p>Nothing has gone the same way it did when I was a kid. I had a DOS machine with a couple of crappy games, and a BASIC interpreter. The only thing I could do is learn to program, it was the most exciting thing available.<p>Today, the absolute flood of high quality content in videos &amp; games has basically prevented them from wanting to spend time figuring out low level details. They have options for spending their time that are so much better than I had that they basically can&#x27;t choose to create. At least not yet.<p>My oldest has been talking about creating his own games for years, he&#x27;s very curious, he&#x27;s a super user of the OS&#x27;s he has access too, his knowledge of game styles and history far exceeds mine (and I was a game dev for a decade). But when it comes down to spending time making things, he inevitably chooses to play an interesting game rather than learn coding. My younger son is almost as addicted to games, but has a simultaneous addiction to YouTube.<p>Recently I met a couple of extremely smart and creative kids whose parents (AI researchers) have completely and severely restricted their access to any devices at all. It got me wondering what the best way to encourage creativity is. Pushing too much will turn them off or make them resist, but a lack of any support can be even worse.<p>Making sure they have time where they&#x27;re bored and don&#x27;t have access to high quality and structured entertainment choices at all times currently seems like a good idea to me.<p>OTOH, they&#x27;re growing out of some habits I was worried about, and maybe the best approach is just to set a good example and love and support them in whichever directions they want to go.</text></comment> | <story><title>How kids in a low-income country use laptops: lessons from Madagascar</title><url>https://theconversation.com/how-kids-in-a-low-income-country-use-laptops-lessons-from-madagascar-93305</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codetrotter</author><text>&gt; But there was one marked difference: computer use in Madagascar tended to be a collective rather than an individual practice. Children and their families would gather around one laptop to play educational games, take photos or make videos. Computers were being used to strengthen existing social relations among siblings, parents and peers.<p>I think it used to be like this for a lot of people in the developed world as well when computers were new and most people did not have computers and those that did had only one in the whole household.<p>Nowadays a lot of people including the children have a smartphone each and the household might have one or more iPads and up to several laptops. And of course a PlayStation or an XBOX.<p>I don’t have children yet, but when I get children I hope to show them programming and involve them in what I do with computers and to show interest in what they are doing and to encourage them to be creative.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aequitas</author><text>This was also the case with TV&#x27;s. Where one family in the street would own a TV and all the neighbourhood kids would come and gather to watch. Well before my time though :)</text></comment> |
41,535,538 | 41,535,072 | 1 | 2 | 41,534,474 | train | <story><title>OpenAI threatens to revoke o1 access for asking it about its chain of thought</title><url>https://twitter.com/SmokeAwayyy/status/1834641370486915417</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IncreasePosts</author><text>Or, without the safety prompts, it outputs stuff that would be a PR nightmare.<p>Like, if someone asked it to explain differing violent crime rates in America based on race and one of the pathways the CoT takes is that black people are more murderous than white people. Even if the specific reasoning is abandoned later, it would still be ugly.</text></item><item><author>contravariant</author><text>Okay this is just getting suspicious. Their excuses for keeping the chain of thought hidden are dubious at best [1], and honestly just seemed anti-competitive if anything. Worst is their argument that <i>they</i> want to monitor it for attempts to escape the prompt, but <i>you</i> can&#x27;t. However the weirdest is that they note that:<p>&gt; for this to work the model must have freedom to express its thoughts in unaltered form, so we cannot train any policy compliance or user preferences onto the chain of thought.<p>Which makes it sound like they <i>really</i> don&#x27;t want it to become public what the model is &#x27;thinking&#x27;. This is strengthened by actions like this that just seem needlessly harsh, or at least a lot stricter than they were.<p>Honestly with all the hubbub about superintelligence you&#x27;d almost think o1 is secretly plotting the demise of humanity but is not yet smart enough to <i>completely</i> hide it.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openai.com&#x2F;index&#x2F;learning-to-reason-with-llms&#x2F;#hiding-the-chains-of-thought" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openai.com&#x2F;index&#x2F;learning-to-reason-with-llms&#x2F;#hidin...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jasonlfunk</author><text>This is 100% a factor. The internet has some pretty dark and nasty corners; therefore so does the model. Seeing it unfiltered would be a PR nightmare for OpenAI.</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenAI threatens to revoke o1 access for asking it about its chain of thought</title><url>https://twitter.com/SmokeAwayyy/status/1834641370486915417</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IncreasePosts</author><text>Or, without the safety prompts, it outputs stuff that would be a PR nightmare.<p>Like, if someone asked it to explain differing violent crime rates in America based on race and one of the pathways the CoT takes is that black people are more murderous than white people. Even if the specific reasoning is abandoned later, it would still be ugly.</text></item><item><author>contravariant</author><text>Okay this is just getting suspicious. Their excuses for keeping the chain of thought hidden are dubious at best [1], and honestly just seemed anti-competitive if anything. Worst is their argument that <i>they</i> want to monitor it for attempts to escape the prompt, but <i>you</i> can&#x27;t. However the weirdest is that they note that:<p>&gt; for this to work the model must have freedom to express its thoughts in unaltered form, so we cannot train any policy compliance or user preferences onto the chain of thought.<p>Which makes it sound like they <i>really</i> don&#x27;t want it to become public what the model is &#x27;thinking&#x27;. This is strengthened by actions like this that just seem needlessly harsh, or at least a lot stricter than they were.<p>Honestly with all the hubbub about superintelligence you&#x27;d almost think o1 is secretly plotting the demise of humanity but is not yet smart enough to <i>completely</i> hide it.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openai.com&#x2F;index&#x2F;learning-to-reason-with-llms&#x2F;#hiding-the-chains-of-thought" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openai.com&#x2F;index&#x2F;learning-to-reason-with-llms&#x2F;#hidin...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bongodongobob</author><text>This is what I think it is. I would assume that&#x27;s the power of train of thought. Being able to go down the rabbit hole and then backtrack when an error or inconsistency is found. They might just not want people to see the &quot;bad&quot; paths it takes on the way.</text></comment> |
16,178,703 | 16,178,518 | 1 | 2 | 16,175,257 | train | <story><title>Neopets HTML Guide</title><url>http://www.neopets.com/help/html1.phtml</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cnees</author><text>Every once in a while I run into another programmer who started on Neopets, and it makes me happy. :) When I interviewed for my job, they asked me my “programming story.” I remember struggling to make my petpages compatible with Firefox, Safari, and IE5. I remember learning Dreamweaver so I could apply to adopt cool Neopets. I wrote tens of thousands of lines of HTML in TextEdit to make an interactive Lite Brite, and more recently I built Neopets-compatible Minesweeper. (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.neopets.com&#x2F;~wire" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.neopets.com&#x2F;~wire</a>) These are the projects that made me give CS a shot even though I had no idea what it would be like and even though I was nervous to enter a field with a bad reputation for its attitude towards women. I’m so glad I did.<p>So many people learned the joy of coding from that site. Sadly, it can’t be that for the next generation because its code filters are almost as obsolete as this guide. HTML5, CSS3, multiple classes on an element, and the word “position” in a stylesheet aren’t supported. TNT, if you’re reading this, please take some time to invest in the part of your site where people learn and create.</text></comment> | <story><title>Neopets HTML Guide</title><url>http://www.neopets.com/help/html1.phtml</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zoba</author><text>Neopets is the reason I’m a software engineer. Along the way looking for “cheat codes” for Neopets, I discovered some people hacking the games. I eventually ran a forum on hacking Neopets, made money from ads, got into PC World Magazine, and had a great time along the way.<p>Sorry to Adam and Donna for any headaches I caused during my teenage years. &lt;3</text></comment> |
18,031,417 | 18,031,380 | 1 | 3 | 18,030,655 | train | <story><title>China’s all-seeing surveillance network</title><url>http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-18/china-social-credit-a-model-citizen-in-a-digital-dictatorship/10200278</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yurie_breschnef</author><text>I think this is a horrible idea.<p>Just imagine how many times we have been wrong in our judgement of the behaviour of citizens. What would the social credit score of Ghandi or Martin Luther Kind have been, at the time of their prominent actions?<p>We have proven time and time again that there is no sure way to judge how &quot;social and acceptable&quot; something is, and the value of a behaviour to our society.<p>What is seen as &quot;unsocial&quot; today may be applauded by historians in the future.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FundThrowaway</author><text>I&#x27;m pretty sure that&#x27;s half of the point, stop any radicals from forming large followings.</text></comment> | <story><title>China’s all-seeing surveillance network</title><url>http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-18/china-social-credit-a-model-citizen-in-a-digital-dictatorship/10200278</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yurie_breschnef</author><text>I think this is a horrible idea.<p>Just imagine how many times we have been wrong in our judgement of the behaviour of citizens. What would the social credit score of Ghandi or Martin Luther Kind have been, at the time of their prominent actions?<p>We have proven time and time again that there is no sure way to judge how &quot;social and acceptable&quot; something is, and the value of a behaviour to our society.<p>What is seen as &quot;unsocial&quot; today may be applauded by historians in the future.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RustySpottedCat</author><text>Yes but saying &quot;screw the government&quot; on social media today, doesn&#x27;t really matter if it&#x27;s going to be applauded in the future, it&#x27;s still going to be aimed at the government, which is the whole point of the system.</text></comment> |
22,286,642 | 22,286,648 | 1 | 2 | 22,285,569 | train | <story><title>Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?</title><url>https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/will-spotify-ruin-podcasting</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>atoav</author><text>One of my favourite podcasts is moving to become <i>spotify exclusive</i>. It is hard to put the betrayal I felt into words, when they first announced it.<p>I know it is a little silly and they probably do what is (in the short term) the best financial decision for them, but I already accepted that this is it and I won&#x27;t listen to them anymore.<p>If you go <i>exclusive</i> to any plattform you never do it <i>for</i> your fans, but essentially <i>against</i> them. They might have a podcatcher they listen to you on they used for years, which they now should change because you want to limit the plattforms you are on.<p>The german podcast scene gladly seems to be quite resistant against these kind of things and they say they earn more through direct donations than spotify and&#x2F;or audible is able to give them anyways.<p>Why would you voluntarily give up that freedom? And why is it so often US podcasters who do it first (they are also much more plastered with ads)?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zaidf</author><text>A typical independent podcast with small-medium viewership really struggles to monetize.<p>It’s great if things in the German podcast scene are different than rest of the world, enabling German podcasts to make more from donations than Spotify.<p>But if that’s not the case elsewhere, can you really blame the podcasters? Let’s say you decide to bake specialty cookies and give them away while relying on donations. Months in, you realize the donations aren’t really covering your expenses and effort. Then someone comes along and offers you a multiple of your donations for an exclusive, enabling you to make a decent wage.<p>I guess you <i>could</i> say “you’re doing it against your cookie-loving fans”. But I could just as easily argue “your original fans didn’t help you get fair comp, so you found another set of fans&#x2F;arrangement to get fair comp”</text></comment> | <story><title>Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?</title><url>https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/will-spotify-ruin-podcasting</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>atoav</author><text>One of my favourite podcasts is moving to become <i>spotify exclusive</i>. It is hard to put the betrayal I felt into words, when they first announced it.<p>I know it is a little silly and they probably do what is (in the short term) the best financial decision for them, but I already accepted that this is it and I won&#x27;t listen to them anymore.<p>If you go <i>exclusive</i> to any plattform you never do it <i>for</i> your fans, but essentially <i>against</i> them. They might have a podcatcher they listen to you on they used for years, which they now should change because you want to limit the plattforms you are on.<p>The german podcast scene gladly seems to be quite resistant against these kind of things and they say they earn more through direct donations than spotify and&#x2F;or audible is able to give them anyways.<p>Why would you voluntarily give up that freedom? And why is it so often US podcasters who do it first (they are also much more plastered with ads)?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cactus2093</author><text>The same thing happens when TV shows get sold or actors&#x2F;hosts get contracts on other networks. I used to like the Colbert Report, but when he took over the late show I could never watch it because CBS wasn&#x27;t on Hulu or any other streaming platforms. Recently I got Youtube TV, and I still can&#x27;t watch anything on Comedy Central since Viacom won&#x27;t put anything there or on Hulu.<p>The TV world is so fragmented these days, almost nobody will have access to every show on every network and streaming platform. Similarly in music even, not many people have Spotify and Apple Music and Tidal to have access to all the exclusive music. The openness of the podcast world is pretty great, but I won&#x27;t be surprised if it goes the same way with more and more exclusives.<p>The flip side, though, is there&#x27;s more really good TV content these days than ever before, it&#x27;s just expensive (&amp; annoying) to access it all.</text></comment> |
38,533,324 | 38,533,267 | 1 | 2 | 38,530,885 | train | <story><title>Polish trains lock up when serviced in third-party workshops</title><url>https://social.hackerspace.pl/@q3k/111528162462505087</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>greiskul</author><text>We really need to have much stronger anti trust legislation and enforcement. It is absolutely ridiculous to allow companies to behave this way.<p>And before someone says that &quot;free market is always good and government is bad&quot;, the optimum free market strategy if there is no government is to hire hitmen to assassinate the executives of competidor companies. A real competitive free market will always require the government to prohibit companies from forming artificial mottes around their monopolies.</text></item><item><author>sonicanatidae</author><text>This tracks for Microsoft. The very same company that told Compaq that if they sold any PCs with OS&#x2F;2 Warp, they would never sell another one with Windows.<p>Humans are why we can&#x27;t have nice things. OS&#x2F;2 Warp was a great OS.</text></item><item><author>jaymzcampbell</author><text>This brought to mind the AARD &quot;crash&quot; which Microsoft used to basically destroy competition from DR-DOS back in the day.<p>&gt; The AARD code was a segment of code in a beta release of Microsoft Windows 3.1 that would determine whether Windows was running on MS-DOS or PC DOS, rather than a competing workalike such as DR-DOS, and would result in a cryptic error message in the latter case. This XOR-encrypted, self-modifying, and deliberately obfuscated machine code used a variety of undocumented DOS structures and functions to perform its work.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;AARD_code" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;AARD_code</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.geoffchappell.com&#x2F;notes&#x2F;windows&#x2F;archive&#x2F;aard&#x2F;drdos&#x2F;index.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.geoffchappell.com&#x2F;notes&#x2F;windows&#x2F;archive&#x2F;aard&#x2F;drd...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36042213">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36042213</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rootusrootus</author><text>&gt; And before someone says that &quot;free market is always good and government is bad&quot;<p>I&#x27;ve never really understood that dichotomy myself. The free market IS good, that is for sure. But it won&#x27;t exist unless the gov&#x27;t uses its power to create it. Companies have to be kept small enough that there will always be a bunch of choices. And that won&#x27;t happen by itself.</text></comment> | <story><title>Polish trains lock up when serviced in third-party workshops</title><url>https://social.hackerspace.pl/@q3k/111528162462505087</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>greiskul</author><text>We really need to have much stronger anti trust legislation and enforcement. It is absolutely ridiculous to allow companies to behave this way.<p>And before someone says that &quot;free market is always good and government is bad&quot;, the optimum free market strategy if there is no government is to hire hitmen to assassinate the executives of competidor companies. A real competitive free market will always require the government to prohibit companies from forming artificial mottes around their monopolies.</text></item><item><author>sonicanatidae</author><text>This tracks for Microsoft. The very same company that told Compaq that if they sold any PCs with OS&#x2F;2 Warp, they would never sell another one with Windows.<p>Humans are why we can&#x27;t have nice things. OS&#x2F;2 Warp was a great OS.</text></item><item><author>jaymzcampbell</author><text>This brought to mind the AARD &quot;crash&quot; which Microsoft used to basically destroy competition from DR-DOS back in the day.<p>&gt; The AARD code was a segment of code in a beta release of Microsoft Windows 3.1 that would determine whether Windows was running on MS-DOS or PC DOS, rather than a competing workalike such as DR-DOS, and would result in a cryptic error message in the latter case. This XOR-encrypted, self-modifying, and deliberately obfuscated machine code used a variety of undocumented DOS structures and functions to perform its work.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;AARD_code" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;AARD_code</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.geoffchappell.com&#x2F;notes&#x2F;windows&#x2F;archive&#x2F;aard&#x2F;drdos&#x2F;index.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.geoffchappell.com&#x2F;notes&#x2F;windows&#x2F;archive&#x2F;aard&#x2F;drd...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36042213">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36042213</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SAI_Peregrinus</author><text>The optimal free market with no government is for corporations (collections of people) to use violent force to enforce their goals. A sufficiently powerful corporation is indistinguishable from a government.</text></comment> |
18,136,284 | 18,135,936 | 1 | 2 | 18,135,394 | train | <story><title>Tesla’s Model 3 Is Becoming One of America’s Best-Selling Sedans</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-03/tesla-s-model-3-is-becoming-one-of-america-s-best-selling-sedans</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexandros</author><text>I would like to go on the record as saying that the big car companies of today, short of a miracle, are on track to meet the big mobile phone companies of the pre-iPhone era. Remember when Blackberry, Nokia, Motorola, Alcatel, Sony seemed unassailable?</text></item><item><author>smaili</author><text>&gt; Tesla’s competitors are feeling it. Sales of the Mercedes-Benz C-Class, the best-selling luxury sedan in the U.S., plunged 24 percent last month and are down 28 percent for the year through September.<p>&gt; And it’s doing so at a higher price than other mass-market cars. The most expensive versions of the Model 3 are currently the most popular, with an average selling price approaching $60,000.<p>It would be very interesting if Tesla&#x27;s surge in ranking would be caused more by fleeing luxury customers (from brands like the referenced Mercedes) versus gaining new customers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kllrnohj</author><text>Both Audi &amp; Jaguar are looking on track to, on their first attempts, quite soundly beat Tesla at the electric SUV game. Similar price, similar range, and vastly better quality.<p>And really if you think about it that shouldn&#x27;t be surprising. The big car companies today don&#x27;t need a miracle at all. They are in a pretty good spot. They know how to do all the really hard stuff about building a car (the actual manufacturing &amp; quality control stuff - the things Tesla is really bad at and struggling hard to figure out). They just need to do the easy part of putting in an EV powertrain. And they are already used to dealing with multiple powertrains for the same car, even.<p>Tesla took the risk to prove it out, but there&#x27;s no reason to believe the big companies will be unable to change course on this. It&#x27;s not at all like the pre-iPhone vs. post-iPhone where the entire UX interaction across the entire platform changed. This is all things considered a pretty small part of the car that&#x27;s changed, and in pretty straightforward ways.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla’s Model 3 Is Becoming One of America’s Best-Selling Sedans</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-03/tesla-s-model-3-is-becoming-one-of-america-s-best-selling-sedans</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexandros</author><text>I would like to go on the record as saying that the big car companies of today, short of a miracle, are on track to meet the big mobile phone companies of the pre-iPhone era. Remember when Blackberry, Nokia, Motorola, Alcatel, Sony seemed unassailable?</text></item><item><author>smaili</author><text>&gt; Tesla’s competitors are feeling it. Sales of the Mercedes-Benz C-Class, the best-selling luxury sedan in the U.S., plunged 24 percent last month and are down 28 percent for the year through September.<p>&gt; And it’s doing so at a higher price than other mass-market cars. The most expensive versions of the Model 3 are currently the most popular, with an average selling price approaching $60,000.<p>It would be very interesting if Tesla&#x27;s surge in ranking would be caused more by fleeing luxury customers (from brands like the referenced Mercedes) versus gaining new customers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>btilly</author><text>That&#x27;s been obvious to me for about 20 years. Ever since I read the case study in <i>The Innovator&#x27;s Dilemma</i> explaining that electric cars would take over around 2020.<p>If Elon should burn out and crash Tesla, it will still happen. Only instead of being Tesla delivering the death blow, it will be those electric golf carts growing up, turning into full cars, and wiping out traditional automakers.<p>Either way the underlying dynamic is the same. As batteries become good and cheap enough for mass cars, there is an opportunity for upstarts who only do electric to take on gas cars.</text></comment> |
12,441,356 | 12,440,828 | 1 | 3 | 12,440,713 | train | <story><title>Pirates Plunder 4K Hateful Eight, but Did They Crack DCP?</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/pirates-plunder-4k-hateful-eight-but-did-they-crack-dcp-160906/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yRetsyM</author><text>&gt; Commenting on the release, Sebastian Haselbeck of Tarantino fansite Tarantino.info says that while he’s not a fan of piracy, he believes that a failure to serve the market is the real problem.<p>&gt; “I strongly condemn piracy and find it generally damaging, but it is a symptom, not the source, of market failure,” he told TF.<p>That&#x27;s it right there. Music piracy took a long time to sort out because it was inaccessible. Now through Spotify&#x2F;Apple Music&#x2F;Youtube I struggle to find anyone who pirates music in my peers (it was prolific). It&#x27;s not perfect yet and I think there&#x27;s still some change to come but it&#x27;s certainly ahead of the film industry.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pirates Plunder 4K Hateful Eight, but Did They Crack DCP?</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/pirates-plunder-4k-hateful-eight-but-did-they-crack-dcp-160906/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sprocket35</author><text>It&#x27;s worth noting that the DCP format doesn&#x27;t have a master key - each &quot;reel&quot; of an encrypted film has its own content key, which is decrypted by each DCP player&#x27;s private FIPS protected key combined with a public Key Delivery Message from the distributor.<p>So if the DCP was indeed cracked, it was either because they gained access to the FIPS module in a DCP playback server, or they gained access to the plaintext content keys where the KDMs are generated. If they have the server&#x27;s private key, they will be able to decrypt every other film that they have a KDM for and we should expect to see more DCP releases.</text></comment> |
25,876,802 | 25,875,589 | 1 | 3 | 25,874,737 | train | <story><title>Access Control for GitHub Pages</title><url>https://github.blog/changelog/2021-01-21-access-control-for-github-pages/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pwdisswordfish5</author><text>&gt; With an internal repository, everyone in your enterprise will be able to view the Page with the same credentials they use to login to github.com<p>Public service announcement: &quot;login&quot; is a noun; as a verb, you should write &quot;log in&quot;. (Consider &quot;knockout&quot; vs. &quot;knock out&quot;.) Another thing to watch out for: writing &quot;setup&quot; instead of &quot;set up&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Access Control for GitHub Pages</title><url>https://github.blog/changelog/2021-01-21-access-control-for-github-pages/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bewuethr</author><text>To clarify, this only applies to GitHub Enterprise – great for intranet sites. If you are on GitHub Enterprise.</text></comment> |
40,327,131 | 40,326,908 | 1 | 3 | 40,324,179 | train | <story><title>Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora</title><url>https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/lucknerhaus/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grafelic</author><text>I feel I need to report my experience from Denmark, Jutland.<p>It started with white broad streaks, which most of all looked like fog, but then perhaps after 10 minutes or so, we saw colors of red, purple and green begin to emerge from the these streaks. Most astoundingly it all seemed to emanate from a fluctuating point in the middle of the sky. If you looked closely at this point you could see it fall into itself, morphing and shifting continuously.<p>We went around the house and we could purple streaks at the top and orange to red patches at the bottom of the sky.<p>Colors observed:
Whitish blue,
Green,
Purple,
Red,
and Orange<p>An absolutely a beautiful experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>irthomasthomas</author><text>I was out flying a camera drone on the river Dee between Liverpool and North Wales filming the sunset, when I started getting magnetic interference warnings. At the same time, I started to see flashes in the sky. Then my vision was filled with sparkling lights. A few minutes later I got an aurora warning from my brother and the aurora app. KP 8-9<p>As the sun went down I was waking through a woodland. I thought the dark would help my eyes to see the aurora, and I could point my camera away from the light pollution of Liverpool and maybe catch some colour with a long exposure.<p>Suddenly, I realised the colour of the aurora was coming through the trees, and getting brighter. I wasn&#x27;t expecting it to be visible to naked eye like this. In these latitudes the advice is to set your camera to highest iso and slowest shutter speed and hope to catch a little colour. I wasn&#x27;t expecting this! So I packed up quick and ran through the woods and into open fields. There, directly above me was this intense white light, with white arms forming a sort-of cross. The longest arm formed an arch over the whole sky, and where they reached the earth, on either side they became colourful, like a twinkling rainbow stretching out to space.<p>I didn&#x27;t have the equipment or the wits to get a good photo. I just threw myself on the ground and lay on my back watching.<p>Wildest thing I ever saw. Absolutely awesome.<p>When I regain my composure, I will upload some photos somewhere (where, though?) and edit this comment.</text></comment> | <story><title>Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora</title><url>https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/lucknerhaus/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grafelic</author><text>I feel I need to report my experience from Denmark, Jutland.<p>It started with white broad streaks, which most of all looked like fog, but then perhaps after 10 minutes or so, we saw colors of red, purple and green begin to emerge from the these streaks. Most astoundingly it all seemed to emanate from a fluctuating point in the middle of the sky. If you looked closely at this point you could see it fall into itself, morphing and shifting continuously.<p>We went around the house and we could purple streaks at the top and orange to red patches at the bottom of the sky.<p>Colors observed:
Whitish blue,
Green,
Purple,
Red,
and Orange<p>An absolutely a beautiful experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>madaxe_again</author><text>I’m a few thousand kilometres south of you in Portugal - here, we got the side view of what was above you, and it was spectacular - pink sky underlit by blue and green filled with vast columns. It really gave me the sense of being a tiny thing on a virtually naked sphere hurtling through the void - seeing such titanic structures really puts things into scale.</text></comment> |
5,302,000 | 5,301,366 | 1 | 2 | 5,300,246 | train | <story><title>Thousands of Public Data Sources</title><url>http://blog.bigml.com/2013/02/28/data-data-data-thousands-of-public-data-sources/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>capkutay</author><text>I'm sorry but I didn't find this entirely useful. Are they allowing us to use the raw data sources? If so, I wasn't able to download anything, just clicked through and found more documentation.</text></comment> | <story><title>Thousands of Public Data Sources</title><url>http://blog.bigml.com/2013/02/28/data-data-data-thousands-of-public-data-sources/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>glaugh</author><text>I'm impressed, this will be super useful. I spend a decent amount of time looking around for datasets, and it's harder than I would have imagined.<p>Finding out about Quandl is alone a pretty big victory.</text></comment> |
3,231,469 | 3,231,500 | 1 | 3 | 3,231,164 | train | <story><title>Generation Sell</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/opinion/sunday/the-entrepreneurial-generation.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&pagewanted=all</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neilk</author><text>I wanted to hate this piece, but I can't. This idea of "post-emotional" is ridiculous, and probably overestimates how passionate previous generations were. There were a lot of half-hearted hippies and punks too. But I think he's right about a few things:<p>- the ideal personality is now someone gentle, who gets along with everyone<p>- the ideal social form is now to start a business or non-profit, or at least be an independent professional<p>- to this end, and due to social media and blogging, many of us are always selling ourselves, however subtly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Generation Sell</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/opinion/sunday/the-entrepreneurial-generation.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&pagewanted=all</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tryitnow</author><text>This is clearly written by someone who has not interacted much with real-world entrepreneurs. "Agreeable" is not the first word that comes to mind when I think of the entrepreneurs I've met. I'm not saying all entrepreneurs are cantankerous, but I would say they're more inclined to do things "their way."<p>I also think entrepreneurs are a lot more threatening to the status quo than previous youth-culture archetypes. If you are a recording executive who would you fear most:
1) a drugged out punk rocker who is pissed at the world and letting everyone know it
2) a hacker entrepreneur like Sean Parker.<p>I think history shows us who the establishment should be more fearful of.</text></comment> |
32,783,935 | 32,781,946 | 1 | 3 | 32,780,388 | train | <story><title>Meta cuts Responsible Innovation Team</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-parent-meta-platforms-cuts-responsible-innovation-team-11662658423?mod=djemalertNEWS</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sangnoir</author><text>&gt; Teams like this attract a certain type of person, and it&#x27;s not a builder.<p>Ditto for financial audit teams and so-called &quot;IT security&quot;: all they do is block, I&#x27;ve never had anyone in either function build something or help me work faster, just additional processes and bureaucracy that slows down <i>real work.</i><p>edit: I thought my sarcasm would be apparent, but Poe&#x27;s law strikes again.</text></item><item><author>strix_varius</author><text>Teams like this attract a certain type of person, and it&#x27;s not a builder. In order to justify your own existence, you <i>have</i> to invent blockers to place in front of people who are actually trying to build things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Karrot_Kream</author><text>It&#x27;s because security, audit, and ethics teams aren&#x27;t judged by how much they enable others, they&#x27;re judged by how many threats they block. I work at a well-known tech company but joined when they were still very small. Our original security &quot;team&quot;, a team of 2 engineers, were highly plugged into the product and the concerns of the then-small engineering team. This team was always willing to help and enable builders to stay security conscious.<p>As we grew into a large company and our security team became an entire organization at the company, the org lost all connection with the product and became a more classic blocker-based team. The org lost empathy with the product and was judged on no product metrics, so naturally the culture in the org began to just be saying &quot;no&quot; to engineers all the time. A few of the earlier hires still try to help, but for the most part they just block.</text></comment> | <story><title>Meta cuts Responsible Innovation Team</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-parent-meta-platforms-cuts-responsible-innovation-team-11662658423?mod=djemalertNEWS</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sangnoir</author><text>&gt; Teams like this attract a certain type of person, and it&#x27;s not a builder.<p>Ditto for financial audit teams and so-called &quot;IT security&quot;: all they do is block, I&#x27;ve never had anyone in either function build something or help me work faster, just additional processes and bureaucracy that slows down <i>real work.</i><p>edit: I thought my sarcasm would be apparent, but Poe&#x27;s law strikes again.</text></item><item><author>strix_varius</author><text>Teams like this attract a certain type of person, and it&#x27;s not a builder. In order to justify your own existence, you <i>have</i> to invent blockers to place in front of people who are actually trying to build things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sofixa</author><text>It&#x27;s not their job to build, it&#x27;s their job to ensure that what <i>you</i> build isn&#x27;t crap on any number of fronts (security, compliance with regulations). You know, important things that impact your users (if you have the best software ever, but it leaks user PII in the HTML because you&#x27;re a dickhead who wanted to build fast without any regard for security, that&#x27;s not great).</text></comment> |
8,183,772 | 8,183,296 | 1 | 2 | 8,183,169 | train | <story><title>Green Arabia</title><url>http://www.idlewords.com/2014/08/green_arabia.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gms</author><text>As with the author&#x27;s other essay on his visit to Yemen, this was an enjoyable one. But this line isn&#x27;t wholly true:<p>&quot;I don’t have the heart to tell him that there’s no future for him anywhere I’m from, either. In the US, being from Yemen is practically synonymous with being a terrorist. The world expects people like him to stay put and suffer in place.&quot;<p>Trying to visit the US on a visa with a Yemeni passport is indeed difficult, and so is trying to emigrate there. But it&#x27;s not impossible: there is a sizable population of Yemenis who have settled in the US and been very glad for how much better their lives are. San Francisco and Oakland both contain large Yemeni populations.</text></comment> | <story><title>Green Arabia</title><url>http://www.idlewords.com/2014/08/green_arabia.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>616c</author><text>Ya marhaba ya mashala!<p>Firstly, it is very cool to see this guy quoting Bukhari. The internet is a wondeful place.<p>I have commented her before, but I am very jealous of your travels to Yemen. I have talked to co-workers for a while and I am not sure the time is right.<p>And you have to be sitting in the back of a Land Cruiser! (For the uninitiated the most popular car in the Gulf, far and large, is the Toyota Land Cruiser, in all of its carnations, and the Nissan Patrol in a distant second).</text></comment> |
35,231,851 | 35,230,730 | 1 | 2 | 35,225,946 | train | <story><title>Twenty-five years of curl</title><url>https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/03/20/twenty-five-years-of-curl/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>keyle</author><text>It&#x27;s worth imagining if curl was invented today...<p>How large would the team be behind it? How many stars on Github? How many open pull-requests?<p>How big would the patreon be? The Github sponsors? What Fortune100 would sponsor it?<p>The open issues count? The build steps? The installer packages? The docker image? The docker-compose? The rust rewrite?<p>Wiki pages? The reactjs website? The nextjs rewrite? The CSS framework that would be born from the rewrite?<p>The incomplete documentation, because of the Discord? How big would the Discord be? What about the subreddit born to cry about the lack of documentation because of the Discord?<p>What about the startup that would offer you curl as a service? Curl as a lambda? Curl one click install in CPanel?<p>How many milliseconds would curl take to just start up? How much RAM would it take?<p>How many developer resume would claim to be proficient at curl?<p>Somethings are amazing because they were made at a time where things were simply made... Not taking a stab at anyone or anything in particular, just reminiscing and imagining...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>siva7</author><text>I&#x27;m a business consultant and surprised how Daniel missed a big opportunity here. He should start selling to big enterprises by making curl a subscription-based model. Then he could hire thousands of developers to support him so he never has to do the grunt work himself and completely focus on monetization strategy and a rewrite in nextjs. Then he could start an ad-based model in partnership with Facebook for free use to support the free tier. Daniel, if you&#x27;re reading this contact me. We can make a good deal.</text></comment> | <story><title>Twenty-five years of curl</title><url>https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/03/20/twenty-five-years-of-curl/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>keyle</author><text>It&#x27;s worth imagining if curl was invented today...<p>How large would the team be behind it? How many stars on Github? How many open pull-requests?<p>How big would the patreon be? The Github sponsors? What Fortune100 would sponsor it?<p>The open issues count? The build steps? The installer packages? The docker image? The docker-compose? The rust rewrite?<p>Wiki pages? The reactjs website? The nextjs rewrite? The CSS framework that would be born from the rewrite?<p>The incomplete documentation, because of the Discord? How big would the Discord be? What about the subreddit born to cry about the lack of documentation because of the Discord?<p>What about the startup that would offer you curl as a service? Curl as a lambda? Curl one click install in CPanel?<p>How many milliseconds would curl take to just start up? How much RAM would it take?<p>How many developer resume would claim to be proficient at curl?<p>Somethings are amazing because they were made at a time where things were simply made... Not taking a stab at anyone or anything in particular, just reminiscing and imagining...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>latency-guy2</author><text>Postman somehow is a business and I am perplexed every day.</text></comment> |
36,692,236 | 36,692,353 | 1 | 2 | 36,682,139 | train | <story><title>Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/11/23779039/microsoft-activision-blizzard-ftc-trial-win</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cman1444</author><text>It&#x27;s not the Boogeyman you think it is. You used to have to buy a game for $60 and if you didn&#x27;t like it? Well too bad, that&#x27;s $60 down the drain. Now you can just move on to the next one. I get that for enthusiasts owning a physical game may be more desirable, but for the majority of gamers (casual gamers) a subscription based service is a better option.</text></item><item><author>NovaDudely</author><text>&gt; argues that this deal actually helps consumers<p>I&#x27;m listening...<p>&gt; by speeding up the transition to &quot;streaming&quot; games and cloud gaming<p>Ewww... no thanks!</text></item><item><author>cman1444</author><text>I disagree with the opinion that it harms consumers. The economist has an article it recently published that argues that this deal actually helps consumers by speeding up the transition to &quot;streaming&quot; games and cloud gaming as an option. I tend to agree. Just because one large company is buying another large company doesn&#x27;t mean the deal should be blocked.</text></item><item><author>KingMachiavelli</author><text>The real issue is Sony has many exclusives which gives Microsoft a better case (despite the judge saying it&#x27;s NOT about Sony).<p>It certainly harms consumers, so I don&#x27;t see how the court still approved this especially with the judge&#x27;s comment <i>against</i> the comparison to Sony. Almost all mergers of this size harm consumers, the fact that it&#x27;s allowed by default is the crucial issue.<p>If the FTC still had a spine they would go after all of these kinds of exclusive deals - and not just limited to games.<p>The film industry was famously broken up such that the production companies couldn&#x27;t own theaters yet in 2023 that rule (if it still exists) is so weak that most production companies have their streaming service and aggressively pressure theaters into exclusivity Windows.<p>At the end of the day this only strengthens the trend to PC gaming which only benefits Microsoft and can only hurt Sony. It would only be a minor surprise if Sony joined the Proton&#x2F;WINE effort with Valve to get around Microsoft exclusives. (Which does help consumers but in a 3D chess kind of way).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lelanthran</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s not the Boogeyman you think it is. You used to have to buy a game for $60 and if you didn&#x27;t like it? Well too bad, that&#x27;s $60 down the drain. Now you can just move on to the next one. I get that for enthusiasts owning a physical game may be more desirable, but for the majority of gamers (casual gamers) a subscription based service is a better option.<p>Moving from an ownership model to a rental model is <i>very</i> anti-consumer.<p>So, sure, some people prefer to rent their couch. That&#x27;s fine. You&#x27;re effectively arguing that couch ownership should be forbidden.<p>You are going to have to provide a more compelling argument that &quot;Well, I play every game only once, for 90m, before moving on to the next, so we should enforce my preference onto everybody!&quot;<p>The majority of gamers <i>don&#x27;t</i> play more than a handful of games in a year. There&#x27;s just no time. You find a game you&#x27;re into, your pour most of your hours into that game.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/11/23779039/microsoft-activision-blizzard-ftc-trial-win</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cman1444</author><text>It&#x27;s not the Boogeyman you think it is. You used to have to buy a game for $60 and if you didn&#x27;t like it? Well too bad, that&#x27;s $60 down the drain. Now you can just move on to the next one. I get that for enthusiasts owning a physical game may be more desirable, but for the majority of gamers (casual gamers) a subscription based service is a better option.</text></item><item><author>NovaDudely</author><text>&gt; argues that this deal actually helps consumers<p>I&#x27;m listening...<p>&gt; by speeding up the transition to &quot;streaming&quot; games and cloud gaming<p>Ewww... no thanks!</text></item><item><author>cman1444</author><text>I disagree with the opinion that it harms consumers. The economist has an article it recently published that argues that this deal actually helps consumers by speeding up the transition to &quot;streaming&quot; games and cloud gaming as an option. I tend to agree. Just because one large company is buying another large company doesn&#x27;t mean the deal should be blocked.</text></item><item><author>KingMachiavelli</author><text>The real issue is Sony has many exclusives which gives Microsoft a better case (despite the judge saying it&#x27;s NOT about Sony).<p>It certainly harms consumers, so I don&#x27;t see how the court still approved this especially with the judge&#x27;s comment <i>against</i> the comparison to Sony. Almost all mergers of this size harm consumers, the fact that it&#x27;s allowed by default is the crucial issue.<p>If the FTC still had a spine they would go after all of these kinds of exclusive deals - and not just limited to games.<p>The film industry was famously broken up such that the production companies couldn&#x27;t own theaters yet in 2023 that rule (if it still exists) is so weak that most production companies have their streaming service and aggressively pressure theaters into exclusivity Windows.<p>At the end of the day this only strengthens the trend to PC gaming which only benefits Microsoft and can only hurt Sony. It would only be a minor surprise if Sony joined the Proton&#x2F;WINE effort with Valve to get around Microsoft exclusives. (Which does help consumers but in a 3D chess kind of way).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>autoexec</author><text>&gt; I get that for enthusiasts owning a physical game may be more desirable<p>It is more desirable. So is not having to be connected to the internet to play your games. So is not paying for something that can be taken from you at any time for any reason without reimbursement. So is having a copy of your game that can&#x27;t be edited or censored at any time (including silently) and which can always be played in its original form.<p>Also desirable is the ability to modify or patch the games you paid for however you like, even in ways publishers wouldn&#x27;t approve of. So is the ability to let a friend borrow the game. So is the ability to resell your games. So is the ability to pass them down to your kids or grand kids.<p>When all you have is &quot;gaming as a service&quot; you&#x27;ll be giving up a hell of a lot more than a disk or a box on your shelf. Companies love cloud&#x2F;subscription based gaming because it gives them far more control, gives them new ways to collect data on users and new ways to push ads at them, and it allows them to force gamers to pay for their games over and over again instead of it being just a one time purchase.<p>I don&#x27;t care how &quot;casual&quot; a gamer someone is, they will <i>never</i> be better off giving up so much in exchange for so little, especially since what little they do get is all subject to change at any time, just like the ongoing costs will be.</text></comment> |
36,258,457 | 36,258,232 | 1 | 2 | 36,257,233 | train | <story><title>Do no harm petition: Don't give big tech access to our medical records</title><url>https://act.wemove.eu/campaigns/medical-records</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>iandanforth</author><text>I strongly oppose this kind of law. HIPAA is a massive burden on medical and research organizations of all sizes, I&#x27;ve personally spent hundreds of hours navigating both human and technical bureaucracy related to HIPAA and I wouldn&#x27;t wish that on my worst enemy.<p>Ultimately however the worst part of these laws is that they are so harmful to research in the long run. With easy and ready access to medical data we could be decades ahead of where we are today. There are legitimate concerns about health privacy (especially for women in the US) but the upside is just so much larger than the harms. It could be 10x less costly and time consuming to do both epidemiology and longitudinal intervention studies if we only had access to data. We could be directly tackling disease causal factors in ways that researchers today only dream of. It really is tens of thousands of lives lost each year that could have been saved if we could only have moved faster toward interventions.<p>I believe medical records should be <i>open</i> and laws should address how people use the data, not trying to make something so valuable to all humanity secret from the beginning. For example you can download my genetic code here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openhumans.org&#x2F;member&#x2F;iandanforth&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openhumans.org&#x2F;member&#x2F;iandanforth&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Do no harm petition: Don't give big tech access to our medical records</title><url>https://act.wemove.eu/campaigns/medical-records</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xaedes</author><text>In Germany they decided to make the EPA (electronic medical record) opt-out starting by 2024. Managed by &quot;gematik GmbH&quot;, a company with limited liability. Because why should the entity responsible for all medical records have some liability. It is a joke, a bad one.<p>They don&#x27;t even say how to opt-out.</text></comment> |
21,866,169 | 21,865,876 | 1 | 2 | 21,863,393 | train | <story><title>Bazel 2.0</title><url>https://blog.bazel.build/2019/12/19/bazel-2.0.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>malkia</author><text>One issue we hit with our CI, and mix of build systems is this - given a changelist, find out which targets needs to be built, and which one needs to be tested on pre-submit, and which on post-submit.<p>With that, we end up paying so much extra time building everything over and over without need, and then not building things that we ought to.<p>So that&#x27;s one reason to switch, but at the same time lots of people simply do not get it. To them it seems intrusive, new, opinionated, and makes them not happy to use it. I&#x27;ve used it for 2+ years at google, and yes initially - was WTF is this? Then it hit me... And I&#x27;m sure the same is for buck, pants, please.build, gn and other similar systems.<p>At the end of the day, you need way to express &quot;end to end&quot; your build graph, from any single individual source file, shell script, or configuration downto building your executables, deploying them, etc.<p>It&#x27;s an industry tool, that needs to be looked, and if it takes 5 people to support it, then it takes 5 people to support it, but you won&#x27;t be wasting other peeople&#x27;s time on issues like - &quot;Why this build in the CI did not trigger?&quot;, why it takes, and wastes my time (waiting for presubmit), etc.<p>Yes, it does not come for free, but it&#x27;s worth knowing and trying it out at least.<p>If nothing else, here is the takeaway - Try to use a system with static graph, where relationships are known before you start building things. It&#x27;s not always there, e.g. your #include &quot;header.h&quot; file is dynamic, but bazel forces you to express even that, and later it catches it whether you&#x27;ve done it, and breaks unless it&#x27;s fixed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bazel 2.0</title><url>https://blog.bazel.build/2019/12/19/bazel-2.0.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>habitue</author><text>Good heuristic for whether it&#x27;s worth considering moving to bazel for your build system:<p>- Do you have 200+ developers working on a monorepo?<p>- Are you willing to vendor all of your dependencies and maintain their builds yourself?<p>If so, consider it. The productivity you&#x27;re losing to unnecessary rebuilding and re-running unchanged unit tests will probably be paid back if you can contort your development process to the one Bazel expects.<p>If you&#x27;re a small shop, the benefits Bazel is going to provide over, say, Make (or whatever standard build system your primary language uses), are going to be minimal. And the overhead of maintaining Bazel is going to cost you a ton of developer time you may not be able to afford.</text></comment> |
31,670,128 | 31,670,456 | 1 | 3 | 31,664,952 | train | <story><title>What FreeBSD can offer compared to other operating systems (2020)</title><url>https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2020/09/07/quare-freebsd/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Mister_Snuggles</author><text>Honestly, I like and use FreeBSD.<p>FreeBSD definitely has things to offer compared to other operating systems, but I&#x27;d also argue that the reverse is true in many cases.<p>Linux, generally speaking, has a much nicer upgrade story. FreeBSD&#x27;s works, but having to reboot and run freebsd-update multiple times during a major upgrade is annoying.<p>FreeBSD&#x27;s init system works and is generally fine, but I much prefer the simplicity of systemd unit files over FreeBSD&#x27;s rc scripts. The common use-case of &quot;Run $X as user $Y, capture it&#x27;s output, restart it if it dies, and track it&#x27;s PID&quot; is incredibly easy to do in a systemd unit file. FreeBSD could learn a lot here[0].<p>Related to the upgrade story, packaging is interesting in FreeBSD. The base system is just &quot;there&quot; and managed by freebsd-update, but 3rd party software is installed via packages (ports build a package then install it). The separation of base (&#x2F;, &#x2F;usr, etc) vs 3rd party (&#x2F;usr&#x2F;local) is good, but it would be nice if all of the software was managed the same way. FreeBSD has started work on this[1], but I have no idea if it&#x27;s actually going anywhere.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;papers.freebsd.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;bsdcan&#x2F;rice-the_tragedy_of_systemd&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;papers.freebsd.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;bsdcan&#x2F;rice-the_tragedy_of_s...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.freebsd.org&#x2F;PkgBase" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.freebsd.org&#x2F;PkgBase</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vermaden</author><text>&gt; Linux, generally speaking, has a much nicer upgrade story. FreeBSD&#x27;s works, but having to reboot and run freebsd-update multiple times during a major upgrade is annoying.<p>This also annoyed me so I implemented one reboot way with ZFS Boot Environments - described here in details:<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vermaden.wordpress.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;02&#x2F;23&#x2F;upgrade-freebsd-with-zfs-boot-environments&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vermaden.wordpress.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;02&#x2F;23&#x2F;upgrade-freebsd-wi...</a><p>Sometimes its even possible to upgrade without reboot as beadm(8) supports the &#x27;reroot&#x27; feature. If you kernel did not upgraded - then you do not need to reboot - just reroot:<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vermaden.wordpress.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;14&#x2F;zfs-boot-environments-revolutions&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vermaden.wordpress.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;14&#x2F;zfs-boot-environme...</a><p>Regards.</text></comment> | <story><title>What FreeBSD can offer compared to other operating systems (2020)</title><url>https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2020/09/07/quare-freebsd/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Mister_Snuggles</author><text>Honestly, I like and use FreeBSD.<p>FreeBSD definitely has things to offer compared to other operating systems, but I&#x27;d also argue that the reverse is true in many cases.<p>Linux, generally speaking, has a much nicer upgrade story. FreeBSD&#x27;s works, but having to reboot and run freebsd-update multiple times during a major upgrade is annoying.<p>FreeBSD&#x27;s init system works and is generally fine, but I much prefer the simplicity of systemd unit files over FreeBSD&#x27;s rc scripts. The common use-case of &quot;Run $X as user $Y, capture it&#x27;s output, restart it if it dies, and track it&#x27;s PID&quot; is incredibly easy to do in a systemd unit file. FreeBSD could learn a lot here[0].<p>Related to the upgrade story, packaging is interesting in FreeBSD. The base system is just &quot;there&quot; and managed by freebsd-update, but 3rd party software is installed via packages (ports build a package then install it). The separation of base (&#x2F;, &#x2F;usr, etc) vs 3rd party (&#x2F;usr&#x2F;local) is good, but it would be nice if all of the software was managed the same way. FreeBSD has started work on this[1], but I have no idea if it&#x27;s actually going anywhere.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;papers.freebsd.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;bsdcan&#x2F;rice-the_tragedy_of_systemd&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;papers.freebsd.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;bsdcan&#x2F;rice-the_tragedy_of_s...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.freebsd.org&#x2F;PkgBase" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.freebsd.org&#x2F;PkgBase</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gunapologist99</author><text>&gt; Linux, generally speaking, has a much nicer upgrade story. FreeBSD&#x27;s works, but having to reboot and run freebsd-update multiple times during a major upgrade is annoying.<p>This is the only issue I have with FreeBSD. On my desktop is one thing, but trying to manage upgrades across a large fleet of remote servers? No thanks.. (To be fair, this goes for some Linux distributions as well. Upgrades should <i>never</i> require user intervention.)</text></comment> |
35,415,497 | 35,415,544 | 1 | 2 | 35,400,760 | train | <story><title>Managers, stop distracting employees</title><url>https://hbr.org/2023/01/managers-stop-distracting-your-employees</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onion2k</author><text>Something to note is that there are <i>two</i> important variables in the second story. The first, as you say, is that you had a different manager. The second is that <i>you</i> had more experience. In every situation a manager is only ever as effective as the information they have, and that comes from how good their team is at communicating with them. I&#x27;d hazard a guess that you were better at telling your manager what they needed by the time the second event happened.<p>If the team has good comms, and experience of both working and communicating updates to their manager regularly, and the skills to explain things in ways people understand, generally speaking you find the manager needs to check in less often. They can trust you to raise things promptly, to ask for them to do things for you, and that when you&#x27;re quiet it&#x27;s because you&#x27;re busy rather than stuck. I find that teams who complain about their manager very often don&#x27;t trust their manager and vice versa. Building up that trust by getting both sides to work on improving comms fixes a ton of problems.</text></item><item><author>Waterluvian</author><text>I remember an experience many moons ago where there was some <i>&quot;emergency&quot;</i> situation and our manager was just insufferable. Every 40-60 mins wanting to check with the ~3 engineers working on the issue for an update or to offer futile advice. I could palpably feel their anxiety and helplessness. I remember it reminding me of the trope of a parent in an ER on a hospital TV show. Obviously there was a lot of pressure put on them from above. I am sympathetic.<p>Years later, a very similar experience happened with a different manager. But they handled it very differently. They called a meeting, led us through understanding the situation and us working out what the solution should be. They got our feedback on how long we thought it would take and then said they&#x27;d come by for an update in half that time. And that was it. I was so impressed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>idopmstuff</author><text>While I do think the manager bears the vast majority of the responsibility in situations like these, the reality is that you&#x27;re right, and oftentimes managers do a bad job because they&#x27;re getting pressured from above to communicate and don&#x27;t know what to do.<p>You can often get them on your side by giving them a plan that makes them feel like they&#x27;re in control (again, totally not your responsibility! But better than dealing with them being obnoxious constantly). If they ask for an update and you say, &quot;I don&#x27;t know what&#x27;s wrong, but we&#x27;re looking into it&quot; then they don&#x27;t know what to do. If you tell them &quot;I don&#x27;t know what&#x27;s wrong, but right now we&#x27;re investigating x because we suspect that&#x27;s the source of the issue. I&#x27;m checking the logs and other engineer is trying to recreate the issue in a clean environment. Unfortunately I don&#x27;t have a good answer as to how long it&#x27;ll take, but we&#x27;ll update you either when we&#x27;ve learned something useful or in two hours, whichever is sooner,&quot; then they have something to say to the people above them and they understand when they&#x27;ll get an update, so they don&#x27;t need to bother you.<p>A helpless manager is like a child - if left alone, they&#x27;ll just shout and cause problems. What they really need is direction and structure.</text></comment> | <story><title>Managers, stop distracting employees</title><url>https://hbr.org/2023/01/managers-stop-distracting-your-employees</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onion2k</author><text>Something to note is that there are <i>two</i> important variables in the second story. The first, as you say, is that you had a different manager. The second is that <i>you</i> had more experience. In every situation a manager is only ever as effective as the information they have, and that comes from how good their team is at communicating with them. I&#x27;d hazard a guess that you were better at telling your manager what they needed by the time the second event happened.<p>If the team has good comms, and experience of both working and communicating updates to their manager regularly, and the skills to explain things in ways people understand, generally speaking you find the manager needs to check in less often. They can trust you to raise things promptly, to ask for them to do things for you, and that when you&#x27;re quiet it&#x27;s because you&#x27;re busy rather than stuck. I find that teams who complain about their manager very often don&#x27;t trust their manager and vice versa. Building up that trust by getting both sides to work on improving comms fixes a ton of problems.</text></item><item><author>Waterluvian</author><text>I remember an experience many moons ago where there was some <i>&quot;emergency&quot;</i> situation and our manager was just insufferable. Every 40-60 mins wanting to check with the ~3 engineers working on the issue for an update or to offer futile advice. I could palpably feel their anxiety and helplessness. I remember it reminding me of the trope of a parent in an ER on a hospital TV show. Obviously there was a lot of pressure put on them from above. I am sympathetic.<p>Years later, a very similar experience happened with a different manager. But they handled it very differently. They called a meeting, led us through understanding the situation and us working out what the solution should be. They got our feedback on how long we thought it would take and then said they&#x27;d come by for an update in half that time. And that was it. I was so impressed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tremon</author><text><i>that comes from how good their team is at communicating with them</i><p>Communication is a two-way street. Proactively calling a meeting with all those involved to understand the situation and then letting the team get on with their work is 100% a managerial skill, not a function of the seniority of the engineers.</text></comment> |
10,035,896 | 10,035,838 | 1 | 3 | 10,035,008 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Big List of Naughty Strings for testing user-input data</title><url>https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rspeer</author><text>Most of what I do involves the messy world of text, and I think this is a great resource. I wish the software I depended on tested against it.<p>I can think of a few more cases that I&#x27;ve seen cause havoc:<p>- U+FEFF in the middle of a string (people are used to seeing it at the beginning of a string, because Microsoft, but elsewhere it may be more surprising)<p>- U+0 (it&#x27;s encoded as the null byte!)<p>- U+1B (the codepoint for &quot;escape&quot;)<p>- U+85 (Python&#x27;s &quot;codecs&quot; module thinks this is a newline, while the &quot;io&quot; module and the Python 3 standard library don&#x27;t)<p>- U+2028 and U+2029 (even weirder linebreaks that cause disagreement when used in JSON literals)<p>- A glyph with a million combining marks on it, but not in NFC order (do your Unicode algorithms use insertion sort?)<p>- The sequence U+100000 U+010000 (triggers a weird bug in Python 3.2 only)<p>- &quot;Forbidden&quot; strings that are still encodable, such as U+FFFF, U+1FFFF, and for some reason U+FDD0<p>People should also test what happens with isolated surrogate codepoints, such as U+D800. But these can&#x27;t properly be encoded in UTF-8, so I guess don&#x27;t put them in the BLNS. (If you put the fake UTF-8 for them in a file, the best thing for a program to do would be to give up on reading the file.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grapeshot</author><text>Isolated UTF-16 surrogate code points definitely crash Unity when it tries to display them. (Seen when I pasted some emoji in a text box in TIS-100 and tried to backspace.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Big List of Naughty Strings for testing user-input data</title><url>https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rspeer</author><text>Most of what I do involves the messy world of text, and I think this is a great resource. I wish the software I depended on tested against it.<p>I can think of a few more cases that I&#x27;ve seen cause havoc:<p>- U+FEFF in the middle of a string (people are used to seeing it at the beginning of a string, because Microsoft, but elsewhere it may be more surprising)<p>- U+0 (it&#x27;s encoded as the null byte!)<p>- U+1B (the codepoint for &quot;escape&quot;)<p>- U+85 (Python&#x27;s &quot;codecs&quot; module thinks this is a newline, while the &quot;io&quot; module and the Python 3 standard library don&#x27;t)<p>- U+2028 and U+2029 (even weirder linebreaks that cause disagreement when used in JSON literals)<p>- A glyph with a million combining marks on it, but not in NFC order (do your Unicode algorithms use insertion sort?)<p>- The sequence U+100000 U+010000 (triggers a weird bug in Python 3.2 only)<p>- &quot;Forbidden&quot; strings that are still encodable, such as U+FFFF, U+1FFFF, and for some reason U+FDD0<p>People should also test what happens with isolated surrogate codepoints, such as U+D800. But these can&#x27;t properly be encoded in UTF-8, so I guess don&#x27;t put them in the BLNS. (If you put the fake UTF-8 for them in a file, the best thing for a program to do would be to give up on reading the file.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gsnedders</author><text>Bi-directional text is probably another one. All the bidi control characters, especially. Probably really all Unicode control characters in general.</text></comment> |
15,194,734 | 15,194,874 | 1 | 2 | 15,191,012 | train | <story><title>Release of GnuCOBOL 2.2</title><url>http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2017-09/msg00003.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guessmyname</author><text>Does anyone knows a job board for people interested to work with COBOL?<p>I have been interested in this language for quite some time, moved to a different country just to try to find a job where I could learn more about it and build up a career, unfortunately the city that I chose doesn&#x27;t seems to be have many offers. Most of the jobs require several years of experience doing low level programming, and although I work with system programming languages (C++, Go) I don&#x27;t have relevant experience working with COBOL which seems to be killing my opportunities.<p>It&#x27;s like the chicken or the egg causality dilemma, I want a COBOL job but everyone requires someone with relevant experience, but how can I get experience if no one hires me to work with COBOL? LOL — I am willing to take a junior-intermediate position if necessary, if anyone has a suggestion (company names, job boards, etc).<p>Thank you in advance.<p>EDIT: I am in Vancouver, BC, Canada if anyone is interested.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paulirwin</author><text>Here in Jacksonville, FL the COBOL market is very much in demand. There are companies like transportation, financial, and insurance companies here that have mainframes using COBOL and hire COBOL developers. I believe I remember hearing that these companies have even funded a COBOL program at one of our local universities so they have more talent available, which means they are open to entry-level developers. I don&#x27;t want to mention any of the company names on the chance that I might misrepresent them (and some of them are my customers), but you can easily find them by searching job boards like Indeed. I&#x27;m sure if you mentioned to a recruiter with national&#x2F;international connections that you wanted a COBOL job you could find one, although you might have to move.</text></comment> | <story><title>Release of GnuCOBOL 2.2</title><url>http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2017-09/msg00003.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guessmyname</author><text>Does anyone knows a job board for people interested to work with COBOL?<p>I have been interested in this language for quite some time, moved to a different country just to try to find a job where I could learn more about it and build up a career, unfortunately the city that I chose doesn&#x27;t seems to be have many offers. Most of the jobs require several years of experience doing low level programming, and although I work with system programming languages (C++, Go) I don&#x27;t have relevant experience working with COBOL which seems to be killing my opportunities.<p>It&#x27;s like the chicken or the egg causality dilemma, I want a COBOL job but everyone requires someone with relevant experience, but how can I get experience if no one hires me to work with COBOL? LOL — I am willing to take a junior-intermediate position if necessary, if anyone has a suggestion (company names, job boards, etc).<p>Thank you in advance.<p>EDIT: I am in Vancouver, BC, Canada if anyone is interested.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_af</author><text>&gt; <i>I have been interested in this language for quite some time</i><p>Out of curiosity: do you mean you find the job prospects interesting, or the language itself? Because I&#x27;d understand if it&#x27;s a money thing, but... I used to work with COBOL and I wouldn&#x27;t wish the language on anyone.</text></comment> |
40,197,594 | 40,194,410 | 1 | 2 | 40,193,216 | train | <story><title>FreeBee: AT&T Unix PC emulator</title><url>https://www.philpem.me.uk/code/3b1emu</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dmd</author><text>(Note: Yes, I know a 3B2 is not related at all to a 3B1! But I figure if you&#x27;re interested in one, you&#x27;re probably interested in the other.)<p>As late as 2002, at AT&amp;T Easylink Services we were still using 3B2s to process email and email-to-fax on a private X.25 network; the beginnings of a 3B2 emulation-on-Sun-hardware project was in the works; I don&#x27;t know if it ever went anywhere.<p>Some interesting documentation I wrote here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;3e.org&#x2F;private&#x2F;gms&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;3e.org&#x2F;private&#x2F;gms&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>FreeBee: AT&T Unix PC emulator</title><url>https://www.philpem.me.uk/code/3b1emu</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>For those who didn&#x27;t know what this was and (wrongly) thought it was some sort of IBM-compatible: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;AT%26T_UNIX_PC" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;AT%26T_UNIX_PC</a></text></comment> |
19,095,553 | 19,094,998 | 1 | 3 | 19,094,502 | train | <story><title>Compounding Knowledge</title><url>https://fs.blog/2019/02/compounding-knowledge/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>keiferski</author><text>This concept is essentially the reason why “being able to quickly google the answers to questions” is inferior to “learning, knowing and remembering the answer.” The former treats a piece of information as an independent, context-free item, while the latter allows you to “digest” the information and understand the answer at a deeper level, to the point where it changes the types of questions you ask.<p>Unfortunately our society doesn’t seem to recognize this and actively encourages not learning certain facts because they are easily googleable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jshowa3</author><text>Fortunately, Google exists so you can learn new things and develop foundational knowledge. Its all about what you do with the knowledge, and has little to do with the fact that you&#x27;re Googling.<p>For example, I was Googling how to create a VM hypervisor last night in FreeBSD. I know very little about hypervisors, but I&#x27;ve read many blog posts and now I know what they are, what they do, how to setup failover clusters, etc.<p>The point is, people don&#x27;t really sit and read the things they look up. That&#x27;s the bigger problem.</text></comment> | <story><title>Compounding Knowledge</title><url>https://fs.blog/2019/02/compounding-knowledge/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>keiferski</author><text>This concept is essentially the reason why “being able to quickly google the answers to questions” is inferior to “learning, knowing and remembering the answer.” The former treats a piece of information as an independent, context-free item, while the latter allows you to “digest” the information and understand the answer at a deeper level, to the point where it changes the types of questions you ask.<p>Unfortunately our society doesn’t seem to recognize this and actively encourages not learning certain facts because they are easily googleable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sametmax</author><text>There is a balance here.<p>Yes, I&#x27;m incredibly more productive in Python because I know the stdlib and most frameworks and tools API by heart.<p>But it took me 10 years of practice, and my daily rate is way more than it used to be. I&#x27;ll also refuse a lot of gigs outright.<p>You want juniors to be able to work too, and you can&#x27;t expect them to know the entire world. Yet they can be useful, worth the money, and a great addition to your team.<p>Besides, even I don&#x27;t know all the answers. I can&#x27;t. The field of IT moves too quickly. I have to select what to learn, and what I set aside as &quot;something I can google&quot;. There is no other choice, because we are limited in time and space.<p>But beyond that, you may want to sacrifice efficiency in some (or many) areas to preserve your energy, divide it in several activities, or just keep it to do something else that is not learning related.</text></comment> |
6,416,675 | 6,416,718 | 1 | 2 | 6,416,513 | train | <story><title>Medium Editor</title><url>https://github.com/daviferreira/medium-editor</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>8ig8</author><text>This is nice, but is pretty much useless on a tablet. I realize that desktop users are the primary focus, but it seems like any new editor has to consider tablet&#x2F;mobile use.<p>It must be a difficult problem. Without using some kind of plain text markup syntax like Markdown, the user is required to select some text for formatting, but then you&#x27;re competing with the OS&#x27;s UI actions.<p>Are there any good mobile&#x2F;tablet browser-based editors that _my mom_ would use?</text></comment> | <story><title>Medium Editor</title><url>https://github.com/daviferreira/medium-editor</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>drtse4</author><text>Nice, a few similar projects if someone need something slightly different:<p><a href="https://github.com/mduvall/grande.js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mduvall&#x2F;grande.js</a><p><a href="https://github.com/sofish/pen" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sofish&#x2F;pen</a><p><a href="https://github.com/tholman/zenpen" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tholman&#x2F;zenpen</a></text></comment> |
12,446,683 | 12,446,712 | 1 | 3 | 12,445,994 | train | <story><title>iPhone 7</title><url>http://www.apple.com/iPhone7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LordHumungous</author><text>The other thing about that though- you can&#x27;t listen to your headphones or hook up aux speakers while your phone is charging.</text></item><item><author>tajen</author><text>&gt; Tons of headphones obsoleted.<p>They do provide the lightening-to-jack adapter in the box for free.</text></item><item><author>acomjean</author><text>I can&#x27;t get over the headphone jack either.<p>Another dongle to loose. Tons of headphones obsoleted. Can&#x27;t charge while listening. Laggy audio. more batteries in the world. They&#x27;re ok with a bulge for the camera but not headphones? I work in a lab and a phone with headphones is standard equipment on the commute and work (for at least part of the day).<p>I would seriously move off iOS if I was making music with it. If only iOS devices were made by other manufacturers... (I know I know....)<p>on the plus side minimum memory had been bumped.</text></item><item><author>slg</author><text>I still can&#x27;t get over the headphone jack. Apple does have a good record of abandoning technologies at the right time (floppies, CDs, Flash, etc) but the biggest difference is that those technologies were all on the downward slope of their popularity when Apple made the move and all had solid replacements available at the time. The headphone jack is just as popular today as it has ever been and it is still more convenient and dependable than wireless headphones for most people in most situations. Maybe that changes soon or maybe AirPods solve this for iOS users (they by design can&#x27;t be a universal solution) but I can&#x27;t help but feel that Apple is jumping the gun on dropping the jack. Although as an iPhone user, I hope I&#x27;m wrong.<p>Side note, I think it is hilarious that Apple can&#x27;t get the AirPods to ship at the same time as the iPhone. Anyone who buys the new phone on release is going to be stuck with the crappy lightning headphones for at least a month and a half.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philliphaydon</author><text>The port is data and charge. So I recon it&#x27;s only a matter of time before there&#x27;s a split plug for charge and audio.</text></comment> | <story><title>iPhone 7</title><url>http://www.apple.com/iPhone7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LordHumungous</author><text>The other thing about that though- you can&#x27;t listen to your headphones or hook up aux speakers while your phone is charging.</text></item><item><author>tajen</author><text>&gt; Tons of headphones obsoleted.<p>They do provide the lightening-to-jack adapter in the box for free.</text></item><item><author>acomjean</author><text>I can&#x27;t get over the headphone jack either.<p>Another dongle to loose. Tons of headphones obsoleted. Can&#x27;t charge while listening. Laggy audio. more batteries in the world. They&#x27;re ok with a bulge for the camera but not headphones? I work in a lab and a phone with headphones is standard equipment on the commute and work (for at least part of the day).<p>I would seriously move off iOS if I was making music with it. If only iOS devices were made by other manufacturers... (I know I know....)<p>on the plus side minimum memory had been bumped.</text></item><item><author>slg</author><text>I still can&#x27;t get over the headphone jack. Apple does have a good record of abandoning technologies at the right time (floppies, CDs, Flash, etc) but the biggest difference is that those technologies were all on the downward slope of their popularity when Apple made the move and all had solid replacements available at the time. The headphone jack is just as popular today as it has ever been and it is still more convenient and dependable than wireless headphones for most people in most situations. Maybe that changes soon or maybe AirPods solve this for iOS users (they by design can&#x27;t be a universal solution) but I can&#x27;t help but feel that Apple is jumping the gun on dropping the jack. Although as an iPhone user, I hope I&#x27;m wrong.<p>Side note, I think it is hilarious that Apple can&#x27;t get the AirPods to ship at the same time as the iPhone. Anyone who buys the new phone on release is going to be stuck with the crappy lightning headphones for at least a month and a half.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>legulere</author><text>You can do that with the lightning dock, it has a 3.5mm out and lightning input for power.</text></comment> |
24,763,351 | 24,755,457 | 1 | 3 | 24,754,553 | train | <story><title>Removing Holocaust Denial Content</title><url>https://about.fb.com/news/2020/10/removing-holocaust-denial-content/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pjc50</author><text>&gt; You can simply ignore people you don&#x27;t like, or you deem &quot;intolerant&quot;, etc.<p>Simply ignore the internet-radicalised mass shooters! Ignore the people raising funds for murderers. Ignore the people gathering molotovs to protest, and the others encouraging each other to run them over with cars. I&#x27;m sure none of that stuff will ever happen to you.</text></item><item><author>amadeuspagel</author><text>Almost any kind of censorship could be justified with the argument that some voices are &quot;drained out&quot; by others, so to protect the former, the latter most be censored, which is not actually &quot;an encroachment on free speech but a necessary impediment to keep the spirit of free speech and free society intact&quot;. WTF does this mean? The internet is not a room where some people have to be silent so that you can hear the others. You can simply ignore people you don&#x27;t like, or you deem &quot;intolerant&quot;, etc.</text></item><item><author>ignoramous</author><text>Admirable move. I think Facebook (and all its properties), Twitter, and other hyper-connected social networks must show a healthy level of intolerance towards groups and ideologies that are beyond reason and recall, especially when those said groups are overtly and unmistakably intolerant themselves.<p>This heavy-handedness isn&#x27;t an encroachment on free speech but a necessary impediment to keep the spirit of free speech and free society intact, one where the tolerant voices aren&#x27;t drained out by the relentlessness and irrationality of the intolerant.<p>See: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Paradox_of_tolerance" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Paradox_of_tolerance</a><p>Similar discussions (re Cloudflare terminates 8chan): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20616055" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20616055</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20610395" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20610395</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raxxorrax</author><text>If you change yourself and the internet because of these mass shooters, what did you achieve?<p>People protest for different reasons and I don&#x27;t like all of them.<p>Homicide is actually something very rare in humans apart from formal war. A tiny subset is perhaps radicalized by internet content, but I would guess there are actually underlying issues for everyone.<p>Your reaction seems to indicate panic, not rational thought.</text></comment> | <story><title>Removing Holocaust Denial Content</title><url>https://about.fb.com/news/2020/10/removing-holocaust-denial-content/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pjc50</author><text>&gt; You can simply ignore people you don&#x27;t like, or you deem &quot;intolerant&quot;, etc.<p>Simply ignore the internet-radicalised mass shooters! Ignore the people raising funds for murderers. Ignore the people gathering molotovs to protest, and the others encouraging each other to run them over with cars. I&#x27;m sure none of that stuff will ever happen to you.</text></item><item><author>amadeuspagel</author><text>Almost any kind of censorship could be justified with the argument that some voices are &quot;drained out&quot; by others, so to protect the former, the latter most be censored, which is not actually &quot;an encroachment on free speech but a necessary impediment to keep the spirit of free speech and free society intact&quot;. WTF does this mean? The internet is not a room where some people have to be silent so that you can hear the others. You can simply ignore people you don&#x27;t like, or you deem &quot;intolerant&quot;, etc.</text></item><item><author>ignoramous</author><text>Admirable move. I think Facebook (and all its properties), Twitter, and other hyper-connected social networks must show a healthy level of intolerance towards groups and ideologies that are beyond reason and recall, especially when those said groups are overtly and unmistakably intolerant themselves.<p>This heavy-handedness isn&#x27;t an encroachment on free speech but a necessary impediment to keep the spirit of free speech and free society intact, one where the tolerant voices aren&#x27;t drained out by the relentlessness and irrationality of the intolerant.<p>See: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Paradox_of_tolerance" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Paradox_of_tolerance</a><p>Similar discussions (re Cloudflare terminates 8chan): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20616055" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20616055</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20610395" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20610395</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>refurb</author><text>Those things you worry about are already illegal. Direct threats of violence (through speech) are already illegal. Funding raising for terrorism is already illegal, including fundraising through speech.</text></comment> |
8,296,759 | 8,296,644 | 1 | 2 | 8,296,402 | train | <story><title>Participate in the “Internet Slowdown” with one click</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/participate-in-the-internet-slowdown-with-one-click</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mhurron</author><text>This has to be one of the most useless campaigns. Yet another slactivist &#x27;don&#x27;t really do anything but damnit feel like you did.&#x27;<p>It doesn&#x27;t &#x27;raise awareness&#x27; (more slactivism). People have heard of Net Neutrality.<p>This does nothing to educate about it. There is no information here, just Oggie Boogie scary shit might happen (but don&#x27;t worry we won&#x27;t risk clicks to show you).<p>And that&#x27;s even if you see it. I&#x27;ve been to reddit off and on all morning, I happened to finally notice the very small black box in the corner with the stupid vague message. No idea when it showed up. I was starting to think reddit wasn&#x27;t even going to bother with a banner. I&#x27;m willing to bet most people will be the same way since, again, no one is willing to risk some ad impressions to actually put anyone out.<p>When your solution to a problem is &#x27;don&#x27;t really do anything about it&#x27; don&#x27;t be surprised when shit happens.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>epi16</author><text>I say the same thing every time I read a &quot;slacktivism&quot; post, but here we go again: if this is useless, what do I actually do to help? Seriously, I&#x27;m not posing this as rhetoric.<p>I&#x27;ve already filed a fairly long, unique comment to the FCC, but I&#x27;ve heard that the FCC ignores most comments unless they come from well-known players.<p>I donate money monthly to the EFF.<p>I&#x27;ve signed the letter to the lawmakers on Battle for the Net.<p>I don&#x27;t have a personal website, so I can&#x27;t put up a banner ad.<p>So, given that I&#x27;ve heard comments on this site and in person that all of the above counts as slacktivism, just makes me feel better, and doesn&#x27;t contribute to an actual solution, what do I do to influence this issue? Ignoring the possibility of coming into large sums of money and buying myself a congressman of my very own?</text></comment> | <story><title>Participate in the “Internet Slowdown” with one click</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/participate-in-the-internet-slowdown-with-one-click</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mhurron</author><text>This has to be one of the most useless campaigns. Yet another slactivist &#x27;don&#x27;t really do anything but damnit feel like you did.&#x27;<p>It doesn&#x27;t &#x27;raise awareness&#x27; (more slactivism). People have heard of Net Neutrality.<p>This does nothing to educate about it. There is no information here, just Oggie Boogie scary shit might happen (but don&#x27;t worry we won&#x27;t risk clicks to show you).<p>And that&#x27;s even if you see it. I&#x27;ve been to reddit off and on all morning, I happened to finally notice the very small black box in the corner with the stupid vague message. No idea when it showed up. I was starting to think reddit wasn&#x27;t even going to bother with a banner. I&#x27;m willing to bet most people will be the same way since, again, no one is willing to risk some ad impressions to actually put anyone out.<p>When your solution to a problem is &#x27;don&#x27;t really do anything about it&#x27; don&#x27;t be surprised when shit happens.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zikes</author><text>I can&#x27;t tell you how many posts I saw exactly like yours regarding the Ice Bucket Challenge.<p>&quot;What good does a glorified wet t-shirt contest do?&quot;<p>&quot;It&#x27;s just a bunch of celebrities trying to participate in a pointless meme.&quot;<p>&quot;You&#x27;re all just a bunch of mindless lemmings. You&#x27;ll do anything for the attention.&quot;<p>The Ice Bucket Challenge raised $111.1m as of August 19th, according to alsa.org.</text></comment> |
14,728,955 | 14,728,698 | 1 | 3 | 14,727,417 | train | <story><title>Steve Jobs and the Missing “Intel Inside” Sticker</title><url>http://kensegall.com/2017/06/steve-jobs-and-the-missing-intel-inside-sticker/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sblank</author><text>The Intel Inside campaign wasn&#x27;t just a consumer branding strategy. First and foremost it was a predatory marketing campaign that turned into exclusionary behavior. PC firms that used Intel chips and put Intel Inside on their PC&#x27;s were given funds to use in advertising and were reimbursed for &quot;marketing expenses&quot;. In reality these marketing funds were actually a subsidy&#x2F;discount (some would say kickback) on Intel chips. As Intel&#x27;s power grew they would only give the PC manufacturers rebates if they would buy 95% of their Microprocessors from Intel. If they used AMD or other microprocessors - all the Intel rebates would disappear. By the end of the 1990s, Intel had spent more than $7 billion on the Intel Inside campaign and had 2,700 PC firms locked up. By 2001 these rebates were running $1.5 billion a year.<p>Intel was sued in Japan (for offering money to NEC, Fujitsu, Toshiba, Sony, and Hitachi,) in the EU (for paying German retailers to sell Intel PC&#x27;s only) and in the U.S. for predatory (pricing), exclusionary behavior, and the abuse of a dominant position (HP, Dell, Sony, Toshiba, Gateway and Hitachi.) The legal record is pretty clear that Intel used payments, marketing loyalty rebates and threats to persuade computer manufacturers, including Dell and Hewlett-Packard (HP), to limit their use of AMD processors. U.S. antitrust authorities have focused on whether the loyalty rebates used by Intel were a predatory device in violation of the Sherman Act. The European Commission (EC) brought similar charges and imposed a 1.06 billion Euros fine on Intel for abuse of a dominant position.<p>The sum of these efforts not only killed competitors but it killed innovation in microprocessor design outside of Intel for decades.<p>Ironically Intel&#x27;s lack of innovation in the 21st century is a direct result of its 20th century policy of being a monopolist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flomo</author><text>Not to disagree with your point about monopolism, but &quot;Intel Inside&quot; came about in that weird period of PC history where IBM had been dethroned, but nobody had taken charge. PC companies were manufacturing &quot;clones&quot; of increasingly outdated systems, and the pain-points were numerous and obvious. It really was a &quot;unique branding opportunity&quot; for someone to step-up and define the post-IBM PC market.<p>Which Intel did. They were largely the one who turned primitive PC ATs + 57 different hacks into the modern PC platform. APIC PCI USB etc. (AMD gets credit for 64-bit largely because Intel refused to do so.) &quot;Intel Inside&quot; wasn&#x27;t just marketing kickbacks, it was a badly-needed standardization program.</text></comment> | <story><title>Steve Jobs and the Missing “Intel Inside” Sticker</title><url>http://kensegall.com/2017/06/steve-jobs-and-the-missing-intel-inside-sticker/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sblank</author><text>The Intel Inside campaign wasn&#x27;t just a consumer branding strategy. First and foremost it was a predatory marketing campaign that turned into exclusionary behavior. PC firms that used Intel chips and put Intel Inside on their PC&#x27;s were given funds to use in advertising and were reimbursed for &quot;marketing expenses&quot;. In reality these marketing funds were actually a subsidy&#x2F;discount (some would say kickback) on Intel chips. As Intel&#x27;s power grew they would only give the PC manufacturers rebates if they would buy 95% of their Microprocessors from Intel. If they used AMD or other microprocessors - all the Intel rebates would disappear. By the end of the 1990s, Intel had spent more than $7 billion on the Intel Inside campaign and had 2,700 PC firms locked up. By 2001 these rebates were running $1.5 billion a year.<p>Intel was sued in Japan (for offering money to NEC, Fujitsu, Toshiba, Sony, and Hitachi,) in the EU (for paying German retailers to sell Intel PC&#x27;s only) and in the U.S. for predatory (pricing), exclusionary behavior, and the abuse of a dominant position (HP, Dell, Sony, Toshiba, Gateway and Hitachi.) The legal record is pretty clear that Intel used payments, marketing loyalty rebates and threats to persuade computer manufacturers, including Dell and Hewlett-Packard (HP), to limit their use of AMD processors. U.S. antitrust authorities have focused on whether the loyalty rebates used by Intel were a predatory device in violation of the Sherman Act. The European Commission (EC) brought similar charges and imposed a 1.06 billion Euros fine on Intel for abuse of a dominant position.<p>The sum of these efforts not only killed competitors but it killed innovation in microprocessor design outside of Intel for decades.<p>Ironically Intel&#x27;s lack of innovation in the 21st century is a direct result of its 20th century policy of being a monopolist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ykler</author><text>It seems to me there is nothing inherently anti-competitive about requiring people who buy your component to advertise that they are using it (or, a fortiori, with incentivizing them to do this with discounts). But offering rebates to customers who by 95% of a certain kind of component from you does seem anti-competitive to me. That should probably be illegal.</text></comment> |
22,423,474 | 22,423,320 | 1 | 3 | 22,422,570 | train | <story><title>Don’t Confuse a Bug’s Priority with Its Severity</title><url>https://www.bluelabellabs.com/blog/dont-confuse-a-bugs-priority-with-its-severity/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rumanator</author><text>&gt; basically, you decided that crash or losing settings equals severe and cosmetic stuff equals not severe. Why?<p>Because you, as a developer, are clueless regarding business needs, and thus are unaware of why &quot;cosmetic stuff&quot; might be far more important than the risk of deleting someone&#x27;s user profile. For example, perhaps the color scheme clashes with the one used by your client&#x27;s main competitor and therefore might leave him vulnerable to lawsuits.</text></item><item><author>clarry</author><text>&gt; &quot;if you click anywhere in the left half of the screen during the 5th screen all the settings get deleted&quot; might be a very severe&#x2F;critical bug, but if the client says &quot;thats fine for me don&#x27;t worry, but can you fix the wrong color on screen one where the logo is purple instead of fuschia that&#x27;s not acceptable for my needs&quot; then this one has a higher priority, even though it&#x27;s much less severe.<p>The problem here is the made-up definition of severity.. basically, you decided that crash or losing settings equals severe and cosmetic stuff equals not severe. Why?<p>I could easily give it a different definition. For example, a crash that nobody cares about is <i>not</i> severe. A small &quot;cosmetic&quot; slip up that can cause big damage to brand is very severe.<p>So I agree with the GP here; why do we need to have a definition of severity that does not align with the things that we care about when it comes to actually fixing things?</text></item><item><author>nolok</author><text>Because as the quote said, it depends on the client requirement.<p>&quot;if you click anywhere in the left half of the screen during the 5th screen all the settings get deleted&quot; might be a very severe&#x2F;critical bug, but if the client says &quot;thats fine for me don&#x27;t worry, but can you fix the wrong color on screen one where the logo is purple instead of fuschia that&#x27;s not acceptable for my needs&quot; then this one has a higher priority, even though it&#x27;s much less severe.<p>Your job is not to build the perfect&#x2F;best product, it&#x27;s to build the one your client want and is willing to pay money for.<p>The mixup between priority and severity only comes from the modern era when so many product get made for internal consumption, or where the user is not not the buyer.</text></item><item><author>whack</author><text>&gt; <i>a P0 (Blocker) bug is a ship-stopper which has to be fixed before the next release can happen. P1s (Critical) are important but not something we’d stop a release for, while P2s (Medium,Low) represent pretty much anything that will only be fixed when our development team has cleared all P0 and P1 bugs</i><p>&gt; <i>It’s important to note that a bug’s priority shouldn’t be confused with its severity, which exists as an entirely different dimension... ‘Severity’ to represent a (somewhat) objective assessment of a bug’s impact to the functionality of the system. From Critical representing major crashes or hangs, to Minor functional issues or purely Cosmetic blemishes. While a QA engineer will classify a bug’s Severity at creation time, it’s the PM who assigns the Priority at the time of triage based on their knowledge of the client’s business and product requirements</i><p>I don&#x27;t see the benefit in having severity and priority as 2 distinct dimensions. Given a specific priority, what additional benefit do you get from having a severity label as well? Based on the author&#x27;s description, I can&#x27;t think of any.<p>If the goal is to better communicate what &quot;type&quot; of bug it is, using an enum classification (eg, cosmetic vs crash vs data-corruption) would be more appropriate than a numeric scale.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>&gt; Because you, as a developer, are clueless regarding business needs<p>Then that&#x27;s the problem we should fix. Instead of creating an extra database field to capture somebody&#x27;s incorrect opinion, the people who understand priority should be helping developers know enough to have useful opinions.</text></comment> | <story><title>Don’t Confuse a Bug’s Priority with Its Severity</title><url>https://www.bluelabellabs.com/blog/dont-confuse-a-bugs-priority-with-its-severity/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rumanator</author><text>&gt; basically, you decided that crash or losing settings equals severe and cosmetic stuff equals not severe. Why?<p>Because you, as a developer, are clueless regarding business needs, and thus are unaware of why &quot;cosmetic stuff&quot; might be far more important than the risk of deleting someone&#x27;s user profile. For example, perhaps the color scheme clashes with the one used by your client&#x27;s main competitor and therefore might leave him vulnerable to lawsuits.</text></item><item><author>clarry</author><text>&gt; &quot;if you click anywhere in the left half of the screen during the 5th screen all the settings get deleted&quot; might be a very severe&#x2F;critical bug, but if the client says &quot;thats fine for me don&#x27;t worry, but can you fix the wrong color on screen one where the logo is purple instead of fuschia that&#x27;s not acceptable for my needs&quot; then this one has a higher priority, even though it&#x27;s much less severe.<p>The problem here is the made-up definition of severity.. basically, you decided that crash or losing settings equals severe and cosmetic stuff equals not severe. Why?<p>I could easily give it a different definition. For example, a crash that nobody cares about is <i>not</i> severe. A small &quot;cosmetic&quot; slip up that can cause big damage to brand is very severe.<p>So I agree with the GP here; why do we need to have a definition of severity that does not align with the things that we care about when it comes to actually fixing things?</text></item><item><author>nolok</author><text>Because as the quote said, it depends on the client requirement.<p>&quot;if you click anywhere in the left half of the screen during the 5th screen all the settings get deleted&quot; might be a very severe&#x2F;critical bug, but if the client says &quot;thats fine for me don&#x27;t worry, but can you fix the wrong color on screen one where the logo is purple instead of fuschia that&#x27;s not acceptable for my needs&quot; then this one has a higher priority, even though it&#x27;s much less severe.<p>Your job is not to build the perfect&#x2F;best product, it&#x27;s to build the one your client want and is willing to pay money for.<p>The mixup between priority and severity only comes from the modern era when so many product get made for internal consumption, or where the user is not not the buyer.</text></item><item><author>whack</author><text>&gt; <i>a P0 (Blocker) bug is a ship-stopper which has to be fixed before the next release can happen. P1s (Critical) are important but not something we’d stop a release for, while P2s (Medium,Low) represent pretty much anything that will only be fixed when our development team has cleared all P0 and P1 bugs</i><p>&gt; <i>It’s important to note that a bug’s priority shouldn’t be confused with its severity, which exists as an entirely different dimension... ‘Severity’ to represent a (somewhat) objective assessment of a bug’s impact to the functionality of the system. From Critical representing major crashes or hangs, to Minor functional issues or purely Cosmetic blemishes. While a QA engineer will classify a bug’s Severity at creation time, it’s the PM who assigns the Priority at the time of triage based on their knowledge of the client’s business and product requirements</i><p>I don&#x27;t see the benefit in having severity and priority as 2 distinct dimensions. Given a specific priority, what additional benefit do you get from having a severity label as well? Based on the author&#x27;s description, I can&#x27;t think of any.<p>If the goal is to better communicate what &quot;type&quot; of bug it is, using an enum classification (eg, cosmetic vs crash vs data-corruption) would be more appropriate than a numeric scale.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Chinjut</author><text>The person you are responding to is saying, yes, &quot;cosmetic stuff&quot; might be far more important. So it&#x27;s more important! Why have another dimension of assessment where we label it less important? Why not only have the dimension of assessment that actually matches the clients&#x27; needs?</text></comment> |
4,936,634 | 4,936,680 | 1 | 2 | 4,936,561 | train | <story><title>Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos</title><url>http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57559710-38/instagram-says-it-now-has-the-right-to-sell-your-photos/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sgdesign</author><text>I'm starting to realize that Instagram is not the service I thought it was. I initially thought it was Flickr with social features, but more and more it's turning into Facebook with photos.<p>There is zero content discoveries features, so you have no way to get new followers or find new people to follow. And the top posters are all teenage pop stars that I've never even heard about who post completely uninteresting photos.<p>The more Instagram turns into Facebook, the more this opens up a spot for another company to build an actual social network around photos. Whether this will be 500px, Flickr (again), or somebody else entirely, I don't know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Smrchy</author><text>As soon as i read that FB was buying Instagram i quit and deleted my Instagram account. It was too predictable that something like this will happen.<p>Mark Zuckerberg is in a horrible position. I bet he would love to just build a cool and useful product. Instead he is damned to roll out all these awful money making features. And quick. Not only for his investors but also for the staff that owns FB stock.<p>How smooth could FB move along if their investors trusted them like they trust Jeff Bezos and his very long-term view.</text></comment> | <story><title>Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos</title><url>http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57559710-38/instagram-says-it-now-has-the-right-to-sell-your-photos/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sgdesign</author><text>I'm starting to realize that Instagram is not the service I thought it was. I initially thought it was Flickr with social features, but more and more it's turning into Facebook with photos.<p>There is zero content discoveries features, so you have no way to get new followers or find new people to follow. And the top posters are all teenage pop stars that I've never even heard about who post completely uninteresting photos.<p>The more Instagram turns into Facebook, the more this opens up a spot for another company to build an actual social network around photos. Whether this will be 500px, Flickr (again), or somebody else entirely, I don't know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>evoxed</author><text>I've always had issues with certain details on Flickr (perhaps since the Yahoo acquisition; I honestly can't remember what was just carried over) such as the inability to download all your photos at once for backup, lockout of <i>your own photos</i> when your pro membership expires (combined with the aforementioned non-feature), and some other things. But as far as I can tell, the community is definitely there. Whenever I am doing research on1 particular piece of equipment or materials (chemicals mostly) I'll often find a fairly helpful discussion on Flickr, and with plenty of well-tagged shots to back it up.<p>Earlier this year while I was staying in Ginza for the weekend a spring popped inside one of my lenses. I have some experience repairing and rebuilding mechanical SLRs (not so much lenses) but without any tools or parts I was hoping to find a repair shop nearby that wouldn't break the bank. Ended up finding a pic on Flickr from someone who had the same issue a few years ago of him and the repairman with his Victor Hasselblad diploma, and his business card. Totally random place on the 8th floor in San-chome, but he was a great guy who I never would've met if not for that post.</text></comment> |
28,168,517 | 28,168,269 | 1 | 2 | 28,167,584 | train | <story><title>Guide to cognitive biases</title><url>https://en.shortcogs.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Uehreka</author><text>When I see someone on Facebook&#x2F;Twitter link to a site like this to demonstrate that the person they’re arguing with is “doing a fallacy”, I just accuse them of Appeal To Authority. I feel like these kinds of sites are often just used to shut someone down by saying that they’re doing something wrong, without actually going through the work of following through with why the “fallacy” makes their argument weak. Also, in my experience fallacies&#x2F;biases are often more indicative of a weak argument than a wrong one.</text></comment> | <story><title>Guide to cognitive biases</title><url>https://en.shortcogs.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eloeffler</author><text>There is also a very poster-suited svg over at wikipedia that categorizes cognitive biases:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;6&#x2F;65&#x2F;Cognitive_bias_codex_en.svg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;6&#x2F;65&#x2F;Cognitiv...</a><p>(There are also hyperlinks to the corresponding wikipedia pages)</text></comment> |
28,792,724 | 28,791,487 | 1 | 3 | 28,787,221 | train | <story><title>Thoughts on chess improvement, after gaining 600 points in 6 months</title><url>https://mbuffett.com/posts/chess_improvement_thoughts/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wpasc</author><text>I often wonder if chess players have a natural &quot;peak&quot;&#x2F;&quot;optimal&quot; age range in the way that professional athletes do. Being a thinking game that requires strong brain functionality combined with accumulated experience, I wonder if there is an age range that is best for most players.<p>Trade offs may be something like in yours teens and early 20&#x27;s your brain may have the most plasticity and ability to visualize (plan 10+ moves ahead) but you might not have accumulated enough experience.<p>I&#x27;m purely speculating here and just wondering aloud. (I bring it up in response to this comment because Magnus&#x27; prodigious talent is so noteworthy I wonder when Magnus will stop being able to &quot;beat&quot; Magnus of 1 year ago.</text></item><item><author>SamBam</author><text>&gt; That seems like a meaningful interpretation of &quot;600 points&quot; that applies to anyone<p>It does apply to anyone, but it is more or less meaningful depending on where you start, so the meaningfulness isn&#x27;t equivalent.<p>It&#x27;s as if you say you can double your money, but it only works once and with a value &lt; $1.<p>The idea that, say, Magnus could increase his chess playing abilities in 6 months (or even 6 years) to be able to beat the current version of himself 99% of the time would be insane.</text></item><item><author>anandoza</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t gaining 600 points mean that you are able to beat the &quot;old you&quot; (or more precisely, people who you used to be even with) with 99% probability? (Or perhaps more meaningfully, you can now beat someone who could beat someone who could beat someone who could beat someone who can beat the old you, all with 80% probability?)<p>(I made up the exact numbers, but the idea is there.)<p>That seems like a meaningful interpretation of &quot;600 points&quot; that applies to anyone -- though the difficulty of actually making this improvement definitely varies with your starting rating.</text></item><item><author>kthejoker2</author><text>Pedantry alert: As ELO ratings follow a logarithmic curve, &quot;gaining 600 points&quot; is a dimensionless metric.<p>These are good tips for beginner to intermediate growth. The things that definitely help the most are:<p>* Pattern recognition - the best courses for this level are things like &quot;Common traps in &lt;some random opening&gt;&quot;, applied with Woodpecker method. Once you&#x27;ve memorized all the mistakes in the Scandi or London system, you can really crush a lot of people who play haphazardly.<p>* Study your own games and games of people at or just above your level. Four simple methods:<p>1) during the game, write down (Lichess has a notes section on the left) 3 candidate moves for every move in the middle and endgame, why you&#x27;re making a particular move, and what you think the opponent&#x27;s response will be<p>2) use the &quot;Learn from your mistakes&quot; button after each game during analysis<p>3) check the most common moves in the opening that are different than yours, play through a couple of masters&#x27; games to see why those positions are preferred.<p>And my last tip which helped me a lot just with the &quot;meta&quot; of playing chess ...<p>* Use more time. Be okay with losing games because you run out of time thinking. Always, always, always try to play the best move, even if it means spending a lot of time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cosentiyes</author><text>Someone posted some basic analysis with mild QC on elo vs age for FIDE rated players as of 2014: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chess.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;LionChessLtd&#x2F;age-vs-elo---your-battle-against-time" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chess.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;LionChessLtd&#x2F;age-vs-elo---your-ba...</a><p>I think there are a lot of confounders to consider. Though GMs like Anand show a drop in standard rating (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ratings.fide.com&#x2F;profile&#x2F;5000017&#x2F;chart" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ratings.fide.com&#x2F;profile&#x2F;5000017&#x2F;chart</a>), his blitz rating is near his all-time-high (ie. is his standard rating drop due to decreased mental performance or a shift in interest&#x2F;focus to blitz?). Similarly, I suspect a lot of strong players who fall in the `2000&lt;FIDE rating&lt;2300` realize they may not be the next magnus and shift focus when&#x2F;if they make the decision to pursue a career outside of professional chess.</text></comment> | <story><title>Thoughts on chess improvement, after gaining 600 points in 6 months</title><url>https://mbuffett.com/posts/chess_improvement_thoughts/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wpasc</author><text>I often wonder if chess players have a natural &quot;peak&quot;&#x2F;&quot;optimal&quot; age range in the way that professional athletes do. Being a thinking game that requires strong brain functionality combined with accumulated experience, I wonder if there is an age range that is best for most players.<p>Trade offs may be something like in yours teens and early 20&#x27;s your brain may have the most plasticity and ability to visualize (plan 10+ moves ahead) but you might not have accumulated enough experience.<p>I&#x27;m purely speculating here and just wondering aloud. (I bring it up in response to this comment because Magnus&#x27; prodigious talent is so noteworthy I wonder when Magnus will stop being able to &quot;beat&quot; Magnus of 1 year ago.</text></item><item><author>SamBam</author><text>&gt; That seems like a meaningful interpretation of &quot;600 points&quot; that applies to anyone<p>It does apply to anyone, but it is more or less meaningful depending on where you start, so the meaningfulness isn&#x27;t equivalent.<p>It&#x27;s as if you say you can double your money, but it only works once and with a value &lt; $1.<p>The idea that, say, Magnus could increase his chess playing abilities in 6 months (or even 6 years) to be able to beat the current version of himself 99% of the time would be insane.</text></item><item><author>anandoza</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t gaining 600 points mean that you are able to beat the &quot;old you&quot; (or more precisely, people who you used to be even with) with 99% probability? (Or perhaps more meaningfully, you can now beat someone who could beat someone who could beat someone who could beat someone who can beat the old you, all with 80% probability?)<p>(I made up the exact numbers, but the idea is there.)<p>That seems like a meaningful interpretation of &quot;600 points&quot; that applies to anyone -- though the difficulty of actually making this improvement definitely varies with your starting rating.</text></item><item><author>kthejoker2</author><text>Pedantry alert: As ELO ratings follow a logarithmic curve, &quot;gaining 600 points&quot; is a dimensionless metric.<p>These are good tips for beginner to intermediate growth. The things that definitely help the most are:<p>* Pattern recognition - the best courses for this level are things like &quot;Common traps in &lt;some random opening&gt;&quot;, applied with Woodpecker method. Once you&#x27;ve memorized all the mistakes in the Scandi or London system, you can really crush a lot of people who play haphazardly.<p>* Study your own games and games of people at or just above your level. Four simple methods:<p>1) during the game, write down (Lichess has a notes section on the left) 3 candidate moves for every move in the middle and endgame, why you&#x27;re making a particular move, and what you think the opponent&#x27;s response will be<p>2) use the &quot;Learn from your mistakes&quot; button after each game during analysis<p>3) check the most common moves in the opening that are different than yours, play through a couple of masters&#x27; games to see why those positions are preferred.<p>And my last tip which helped me a lot just with the &quot;meta&quot; of playing chess ...<p>* Use more time. Be okay with losing games because you run out of time thinking. Always, always, always try to play the best move, even if it means spending a lot of time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spekcular</author><text>Here&#x27;s some data for your question. A list of the world&#x27;s top players (over 2700 Elo) is maintained here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;2700chess.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;2700chess.com&#x2F;</a>.<p>With the exception of Anand at 51, they&#x27;re all quite young.</text></comment> |
5,121,046 | 5,121,004 | 1 | 3 | 5,120,664 | train | <story><title>Man With 4th Amendment Written on Chest Wins Trial Over Airport Arrest</title><url>http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/01/4th-amendment-chest-trial/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ck2</author><text>That judge with the dissent - what a moron. Maybe Rosa Parks should have protested somewhere other than the bus too eh?<p>Dude was braver than I've ever been, could have ended really badly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Man With 4th Amendment Written on Chest Wins Trial Over Airport Arrest</title><url>http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/01/4th-amendment-chest-trial/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Osiris</author><text>When I used to travel for work I made a big effort to avoid going through the scanners by selecting lines that weren't using them or opt-ing out. My last opt-out occurred after the new groping pat-downs were put into practice and I found the pat-down much more disturbing than the scanner. Now, I still try to avoid the line with the scanner, but when required, I'll go through them rather than get groped.<p>Unfortunately, this lawsuit will do nothing to change the way the TSA operates. I would have been happier to see the punishment not just be a payment of monies but a requirement to change policies and procedures to avoid this in the future. I don't see that happening.</text></comment> |
11,005,049 | 11,004,563 | 1 | 3 | 11,004,396 | train | <story><title>Why use www?</title><url>http://www.yes-www.org/why-use-www/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>feelix</author><text>This reasoning is all based on valid, but technical issues for the hosting side.
A general rule for any customer-facing business is to put the customer first. I could list 200 different reasons why you should make the customer register an account with their email address before they can purchase something for you. However, if you put the customer first, in many cases it is easier for them if they don&#x27;t have to do that. Having the www before the domain name adds unnecessary visual clutter and from the customers point of view, an unnecessary redirect before they can get to your site. A lot of sites use minimalist style everywhere, and it&#x27;s great. Having the www there for technical reasons is putting the user second in those cases.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>forgotpasswd3x</author><text>I think that www vs. no-www, as a matter of &quot;putting the customer first&quot; is so INCREDIBLY insignificant, compared to the thousands of other decisions that go into a product, that it&#x27;s ridiculous we&#x27;re even having this conversation. This is looking for optimization in the wrong places at its finest.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why use www?</title><url>http://www.yes-www.org/why-use-www/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>feelix</author><text>This reasoning is all based on valid, but technical issues for the hosting side.
A general rule for any customer-facing business is to put the customer first. I could list 200 different reasons why you should make the customer register an account with their email address before they can purchase something for you. However, if you put the customer first, in many cases it is easier for them if they don&#x27;t have to do that. Having the www before the domain name adds unnecessary visual clutter and from the customers point of view, an unnecessary redirect before they can get to your site. A lot of sites use minimalist style everywhere, and it&#x27;s great. Having the www there for technical reasons is putting the user second in those cases.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jlg23</author><text>&gt; This reasoning is all based on valid, but technical issues for the hosting side. A general rule for any customer-facing business is to put the customer first.<p>The article says:<p>&quot;Should I redirect no-www to www?<p>Yes.<p>Redirection ensures that visitors who type in your URL reach you regardless of which form they use, and also ensures that search engines index your canonical URLs properly.&quot;</text></comment> |
10,477,449 | 10,476,762 | 1 | 2 | 10,473,934 | train | <story><title>How One 17-Year-Old Coded a #1 App and Got Hired by Facebook</title><url>http://thehustle.co/how-one-17-year-old-coded-a-number-one-app-and-got-hired-by-facebook</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>GFischer</author><text>I am impressed by his determination. The Pando article says it best:<p>&quot;Sayman&#x27;s experience is one that perhaps could only be entirely appreciated here in Silicon Valley, where entrepreneurship, ingenuity, and building something out of nothing, or rather, out of lines of code, still holds cult-like status, for good or ill. Sayman doesn’t even seem to understand the power of his story.<p>He got his app where it is today not with millions or even thousands in venture capital. He didn’t get it where it is with Silicon Valley connections or hookups to the magic elves who pick what’s featured in the iOS app store. He didn’t get it with a team of developers or designers or a co-founder or even an incorporated company. He didn&#x27;t even get it there with natural technical talent. Instead, it took sheer force of will and a refusal to back down to any of the obstacles he faced. That, and an unholy faith in the power of Google to answer his questions.&quot;<p>&quot;“I watch my son, every night and every single day, staying up until 4 or 5 am, working on the app, doing his homework, sleeping two or three hours, and then going to school,” Cristina Sayman says. &quot;<p>I&#x27;m sad to say, I don&#x27;t do this :( , I struggle to find that much willpower, even though I believe in what I&#x27;m building.</text></comment> | <story><title>How One 17-Year-Old Coded a #1 App and Got Hired by Facebook</title><url>http://thehustle.co/how-one-17-year-old-coded-a-number-one-app-and-got-hired-by-facebook</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bsaul</author><text>I hope young people reading that article realize it&#x27;s talking about someone winning the lottery. There&#x27;s statistically zero chance that will happen to you, so you&#x27;d better work on your exams than code through the night and fail them.</text></comment> |
14,711,300 | 14,711,288 | 1 | 2 | 14,711,153 | train | <story><title>Wildcard Certificates Coming January 2018</title><url>https://letsencrypt.org//2017/07/06/wildcard-certificates-coming-jan-2018.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dijit</author><text>I strongly dislike wildcard certificates.<p>I worked in a few places that had a *.company.com which covered, obviously, everything under that domain.<p>That meant if that wildcard cert leaked then our EV cert for, say, checkout.company.com would be essentially compromised too.<p>Not to mention. If you have a wildcard cert it&#x27;s rather likely you&#x27;re passing those certs around servers, lots of scope for leakage.<p>I really think that if you feel the need to do wildcard certificates, then you should at least try to figure out another way around it. I&#x27;m not saying you absolutely must never use them, but be incredibly mindful of what is at stake and limit the scope and availability of such certs as much as possible.<p>For instance. Don&#x27;t put the same wildcard on mail servers and IM servers and git servers and etc; a compromise of one will compromise them all and the revokation system is not good enough.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.dijit.sh&#x2F;please-stop-advocating-wildcard-certificates" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.dijit.sh&#x2F;please-stop-advocating-wildcard-certif...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mnutt</author><text>I agree that wildcards aren&#x27;t great if they&#x27;re being passed around an organization to avoid registering a few extra certs, but they are very useful in a few circumstances such as sandstorm.io: every app session uses a different subdomain to prevent cookie leakage, and registering that many certs would overwhelm LE. I&#x27;d imagine there are other cases out there involving automatically created subdomains that will benefit.</text></comment> | <story><title>Wildcard Certificates Coming January 2018</title><url>https://letsencrypt.org//2017/07/06/wildcard-certificates-coming-jan-2018.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dijit</author><text>I strongly dislike wildcard certificates.<p>I worked in a few places that had a *.company.com which covered, obviously, everything under that domain.<p>That meant if that wildcard cert leaked then our EV cert for, say, checkout.company.com would be essentially compromised too.<p>Not to mention. If you have a wildcard cert it&#x27;s rather likely you&#x27;re passing those certs around servers, lots of scope for leakage.<p>I really think that if you feel the need to do wildcard certificates, then you should at least try to figure out another way around it. I&#x27;m not saying you absolutely must never use them, but be incredibly mindful of what is at stake and limit the scope and availability of such certs as much as possible.<p>For instance. Don&#x27;t put the same wildcard on mail servers and IM servers and git servers and etc; a compromise of one will compromise them all and the revokation system is not good enough.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.dijit.sh&#x2F;please-stop-advocating-wildcard-certificates" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.dijit.sh&#x2F;please-stop-advocating-wildcard-certif...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hakanensari</author><text>There are legitimate use cases: for instance, a multi-tenant app that designates tenant by subdomain.</text></comment> |
18,375,814 | 18,375,427 | 1 | 2 | 18,374,994 | train | <story><title>So You Want to Learn Physics (2016)</title><url>https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2016/8/13/so-you-want-to-learn-physics</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrepd</author><text>Well I disagree with many of the book choices, but if there&#x27;s one thing that&#x27;s absolutely spot-on is this:<p>&gt;One big problem is that a lot of the popular books written about physics (especially those by famous physicists) are incredibly speculative and tend to present an unrealistic view of what the study of physics is all about. When you&#x27;re learning physics, it&#x27;s good to avoid these types of speculative books, and stick to the good ones that talk about the real physics we know exists.<p>Oh god yes. Why is it that whenever a lay person wants to talk about physics they talk about &quot;11 dimensions&quot;, &quot;string theory&quot;, or &quot;time dilation&quot;, or any similarly crazy-sounding term that they read in a massively incorrect pop-sci article. Basically it makes it sound like physics is about all this crazy complicated and far-fetched ideas, rather than simple and beautiful principles to understand reality, which is what it is.<p>I don&#x27;t know if I managed to convey what I mean.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ellius</author><text>I have a model with two kinds of knowledge: sexy knowledge and homely knowledge. I think the internet and mass media era in general have massively endorsed and empowered the projects and acquisition of sexy knowledge. If it doesn&#x27;t garner attention rapidly on a large scale, then it doesn&#x27;t go on TV. The problem is that most of the real projects of science and industry are about homely knowledge. It&#x27;s the little boring things like washing your hands that prevent catastrophic hospital deaths. But that&#x27;s not superficially interesting, or fun, and it doesn&#x27;t provide the knowledge bearer with any kind of moral or intellectual superiority by which they can affect pretensions of enlightenment. Quackery has always been a thing, but I think sexy knowledge lies somewhere before the frontier of quackery. It&#x27;s true, or plausibly true, information, but it is dramatically overvalued in our time and culture.</text></comment> | <story><title>So You Want to Learn Physics (2016)</title><url>https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2016/8/13/so-you-want-to-learn-physics</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrepd</author><text>Well I disagree with many of the book choices, but if there&#x27;s one thing that&#x27;s absolutely spot-on is this:<p>&gt;One big problem is that a lot of the popular books written about physics (especially those by famous physicists) are incredibly speculative and tend to present an unrealistic view of what the study of physics is all about. When you&#x27;re learning physics, it&#x27;s good to avoid these types of speculative books, and stick to the good ones that talk about the real physics we know exists.<p>Oh god yes. Why is it that whenever a lay person wants to talk about physics they talk about &quot;11 dimensions&quot;, &quot;string theory&quot;, or &quot;time dilation&quot;, or any similarly crazy-sounding term that they read in a massively incorrect pop-sci article. Basically it makes it sound like physics is about all this crazy complicated and far-fetched ideas, rather than simple and beautiful principles to understand reality, which is what it is.<p>I don&#x27;t know if I managed to convey what I mean.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cygx</author><text>&gt; <i>&quot;11 dimensions&quot;, &quot;string theory&quot;, or &quot;time dilation&quot;</i><p>One of these things is not like the others...</text></comment> |
35,376,953 | 35,377,218 | 1 | 2 | 35,376,598 | train | <story><title>Folia – Multithreading Coming to your Minecraft server</title><url>https://paper-chan.moe/folia/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>c7DJTLrn</author><text>The modding&#x2F;custom server situation with Minecraft is so exhausting. I can&#x27;t believe after all these years there is still no official modding or plugin API.<p>So now we have Folia, which is a fork of Paper, which is a fork of Spigot, which I believe was originally a fork of Bukkit. Nice. I guess people don&#x27;t want to upstream patches for some reason.</text></comment> | <story><title>Folia – Multithreading Coming to your Minecraft server</title><url>https://paper-chan.moe/folia/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gjsman-1000</author><text>This is, for those who know a little bit about Minecraft hosting, <i>extremely</i> impressive stuff. Stuff I never thought I would see for years. Minecraft has been notoriously single-threaded and breaking it apart into regions, even though discussed for years, has always been a crapshoot whenever attempted - so getting it even close to finally possible in a reasonable and self-adjusting way is astounding.</text></comment> |
22,224,515 | 22,224,705 | 1 | 2 | 22,223,627 | train | <story><title>NSW and Victoria just jumped 1.8 metres north</title><url>https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw-and-victoria-just-jumped-1-8-metres-north-20200102-p53ocx.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wycy</author><text>Somewhat clickbaity headline. The change is being made to fix a 1.8 metre inaccuracy that has crept into our GPS coordinates, caused by Australia slowly drifting north.</text></comment> | <story><title>NSW and Victoria just jumped 1.8 metres north</title><url>https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw-and-victoria-just-jumped-1-8-metres-north-20200102-p53ocx.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>shakna</author><text>&gt; It will take some time for companies like Google to pick up and implement the new data. But when they do, you will enjoy slightly more accurate satellite navigation.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t hold my breath. Google&#x27;s adoption of updated information for anything other than the capital cities is extremely slow. On the order of the data has been in OSM for five years slow.<p>Google has photographs of my house from above, and from the road, and doesn&#x27;t list the road as existing.<p>They&#x27;re probably inclined to add this GPS shift data for the capital cities - but the mapping data will probably be inconsistently updated.<p>Especially as the state and territories provide the data in an incredibly wide range of formats.<p>VIC, NSW, SA provide shapefiles, which is great, as it is becoming one of the more popular standard. (They also export for a range of other data types).<p>The NT provides a strange mix of shapefiles and custom xlsx sheets. Unless you&#x27;re looking at Darwin or the heart of the Kimberly&#x27;s, you&#x27;ll be looking at human-written Excel sheets for a lot of this.<p>QLD, the ACT and WA seem to use OpenGIS&#x2F;ArcGIS XML files.<p>Tasmania doesn&#x27;t maintain their own data, but relies on ANZLIC to do it for them, and seem to be in the middle of an argument over who will do the maintenance moving forward. (The last update to any of their public data appears to be in 2016.) This was shapefile&#x2F;export like VIC, NSW and SA, but it becomes somewhat useless if it never gets updated.<p>If you&#x27;re an islander, you sort of have to hope that the state&#x2F;territory includes you in their dataset. They don&#x27;t always. And they&#x27;re not consistent about when they include you. Regressions are common. Councils tend to maintain their own data, but rarely allow anyone access, paid or not. If you hand them a FOIA request to see the data, then... Well, I got handed a series of printed XML documents, after six months of them threatening to take me to court for requesting it. Multiple island &quot;councils&quot; (often different names, but similar functions) did this.</text></comment> |
22,737,710 | 22,736,807 | 1 | 2 | 22,735,746 | train | <story><title>Zoom meetings aren’t end-to-end encrypted, despite marketing</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2020/03/31/zoom-meeting-encryption/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabcat</author><text>End-to-end encryption has been named as a required feature for telehealth in Australia. Interest in telehealth has gone from zero to infinity over the past two weeks for obvious reasons. So I&#x27;ve been trying really hard to work out if Zoom is E2E, and reached the same conclusions as the article. First, it isn&#x27;t, and second, Zoom are really going out of their way to obscure that fact.<p>It&#x27;s great that The Intercept is taking a look at this, because it&#x27;s absolutely beyond the capabilities of healthcare practitioners and the professional bodies to get to the bottom of. There&#x27;s a ridiculous amount of confusion here, compounded by &quot;you need to get the HIPAA version because HIPAA means privacy&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SkyPuncher</author><text>Just an FYI, two weeks ago, CMS announced it would be suspending enforcement of telehealth tools used in good faith during the COVID pandemic. [0]<p>Basically, if you are a family doc that&#x27;s been thrown into the telehealth ringer, you can get started with everyday tools for video chat, like Facetime, Google Hangouts, Skype, etc - regardless of that tool&#x27;s Hipaa compliance.<p>Overtime I do expect they&#x27;ll want to see providers transition to compliant solutions, but they understand thousands of doctors, some of whom have never delivered telemedicine, can&#x27;t simply audit and on-boarding a new provider overnight.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cms.gov&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;fact-sheets&#x2F;medicare-telemedicine-health-care-provider-fact-sheet" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cms.gov&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;fact-sheets&#x2F;medicare-telemedici...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Zoom meetings aren’t end-to-end encrypted, despite marketing</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2020/03/31/zoom-meeting-encryption/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabcat</author><text>End-to-end encryption has been named as a required feature for telehealth in Australia. Interest in telehealth has gone from zero to infinity over the past two weeks for obvious reasons. So I&#x27;ve been trying really hard to work out if Zoom is E2E, and reached the same conclusions as the article. First, it isn&#x27;t, and second, Zoom are really going out of their way to obscure that fact.<p>It&#x27;s great that The Intercept is taking a look at this, because it&#x27;s absolutely beyond the capabilities of healthcare practitioners and the professional bodies to get to the bottom of. There&#x27;s a ridiculous amount of confusion here, compounded by &quot;you need to get the HIPAA version because HIPAA means privacy&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SamuelAdams</author><text>Hold on, E2E encryption is now required for telehealth in Australia, yet the Australian government passed laws that required LEO&#x27;s to have access to E2E encrypted data [1]? How are tech companies supposed to comply with that?<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;australia-encryption-law-global-impact&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;australia-encryption-law-global-...</a></text></comment> |
39,867,846 | 39,867,496 | 1 | 3 | 39,867,160 | train | <story><title>When new hires get paid more, top performers resign first</title><url>https://hbr.org/2024/03/when-new-hires-get-paid-more-top-performers-resign-first</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dragon-hn</author><text>I just had a very valuable teammate quit this week from lack of salary progression. New-ish grads are making more than him for much lesser jobs. The business refused to do even a token salary increase because of the ‘economic climate’<p>Now a critical project won’t happen on time, which will cost the company many magnitudes more in revenue than it would have cost them with a token increase.<p>Oops.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hobs</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen this before so many times, and recommend people quit and sometimes even apply back at their same company.<p>I got my friend a 30% raise after he quit, worked at a new place for two months, it blocked implementation of key projects and the CEO started freaking out.<p>I asked him how much he would pay to fix the problem, and he gave me a number.
I said if we paid that as the new salary to my friend we could have him working there in a week.<p>The CEO made the call in front of me lol.</text></comment> | <story><title>When new hires get paid more, top performers resign first</title><url>https://hbr.org/2024/03/when-new-hires-get-paid-more-top-performers-resign-first</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dragon-hn</author><text>I just had a very valuable teammate quit this week from lack of salary progression. New-ish grads are making more than him for much lesser jobs. The business refused to do even a token salary increase because of the ‘economic climate’<p>Now a critical project won’t happen on time, which will cost the company many magnitudes more in revenue than it would have cost them with a token increase.<p>Oops.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bell-cot</author><text>But, <i>viewed on a small-enough scale</i>, the managers did get their way.<p>And &quot;small&quot; is usually quite descriptive of managers.</text></comment> |
41,176,407 | 41,175,736 | 1 | 3 | 41,173,423 | train | <story><title>WD announces enterprise 128TB SSD</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/wd-announces-enterprise-128tb-ssd-8tb-sd-cards-and-a-16tb-external-ssd-at-fms-2024</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>darksaints</author><text>I&#x27;d love to find a M2-only NAS in a very low profile form factor. I live in a small apartment and prefer small electronics that can hide in a cabinet, but it seems like all of the NAS enclosures that I&#x27;ve ever seen recommended are fucking huge.</text></item><item><author>porphyra</author><text>I really want a denser SSD to store my photo collection. My current small form factor PC has two NVME PCIe slots and no room for SATA drives. I have two 4 TB SSDs in there right now and it seems that consumer SSDs basically cap out at 4 TB. I would really love to get about 16 TB in my computer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CharlesW</author><text>&gt; <i>I&#x27;d love to find a M2-only NAS in a very low profile form factor.</i><p>QNAP has at least two &quot;NASbooks&quot;:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.qnap.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;product&#x2F;tbs-464" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.qnap.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;product&#x2F;tbs-464</a> (2.5 GbE, USB 3.2)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.qnap.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;product&#x2F;tbs-h574tx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.qnap.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;product&#x2F;tbs-h574tx</a> (2.5&#x2F;10 GbE, Thunderbolt 4)</text></comment> | <story><title>WD announces enterprise 128TB SSD</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/wd-announces-enterprise-128tb-ssd-8tb-sd-cards-and-a-16tb-external-ssd-at-fms-2024</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>darksaints</author><text>I&#x27;d love to find a M2-only NAS in a very low profile form factor. I live in a small apartment and prefer small electronics that can hide in a cabinet, but it seems like all of the NAS enclosures that I&#x27;ve ever seen recommended are fucking huge.</text></item><item><author>porphyra</author><text>I really want a denser SSD to store my photo collection. My current small form factor PC has two NVME PCIe slots and no room for SATA drives. I have two 4 TB SSDs in there right now and it seems that consumer SSDs basically cap out at 4 TB. I would really love to get about 16 TB in my computer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>walterbell</author><text>ODROID H4 Plus Intel N97 SBC (with in-band ECC) has an option for 4xM.2 via PCIe bifurcation, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hardkernel.com&#x2F;blog-2&#x2F;new-m-2-card-for-the-odroid-h4-series&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hardkernel.com&#x2F;blog-2&#x2F;new-m-2-card-for-the-odroi...</a></text></comment> |
35,003,013 | 35,002,322 | 1 | 2 | 34,999,039 | train | <story><title>Running Databases on Kubernetes</title><url>https://questdb.io/blog/databases-on-k8s/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_skel</author><text>I don&#x27;t think the upsides are worth all the work.<p>You can spend a lot of time getting databases and other stateful workloads to work -- mess around with StatefulSet and PVC on top of all the normal Kubernetes concepts, and what do you get in the end? Are you really better off than you would have been if you ran the database in EC2?<p>Plus, &quot;herds not pets&quot; kind of breaks down once you start using StatefulSets and PVCs. Those things exist to make Kubernetes more like a static environment for workloads that can&#x27;t handle being run like ephemeral cattle. So why not just keep using your static environment?<p>If Kubernetes is the only workload management control plane you have, then I guess this makes sense. But if you are already able to deploy your databases with existing tools, and those existing tools don&#x27;t <i>really</i> suck, it&#x27;s probably not worth migrating. It would take a lot of time and introduce significant new risks and operational complexity without a compensating payoff.</text></comment> | <story><title>Running Databases on Kubernetes</title><url>https://questdb.io/blog/databases-on-k8s/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mdasen</author><text>I&#x27;ve been quite happy with CloudNativePG on k8s. It was simple for me to set up on a k8s cluster with one primary and two replicas, if the primary box goes down another instance becomes primary, deal with connection pooling, and simple to have backups go to a cloud object store. The alternative is dealing with all the replication manually, making sure that your leader election and failover work, making sure you can stand up new PG instances and get things replicated to the new instance, having a service that is checking the health of the database to trigger a failover, etc. It&#x27;s certainly not impossible or anything like that, but CloudNativePG has been pretty easy. K8s isn&#x27;t perfect or anything, but it&#x27;s been a pretty nice experience for me.<p>I&#x27;ve tried other Postgres operators and been disappointed and it did require a little learning, but it&#x27;s not like getting replication, Patroni, etcd, PGBouncer, HAProxy, and pgBackRest all running for a high-availability Postgres deployment is easy and wouldn&#x27;t require learning.<p>As the author says, &quot;[k8s&#x27;s] operator model allows end users to programmatically manage their workloads by writing code against the core k8s APIs to automatically perform tasks that would previously have to be done manually.&quot; To me, that&#x27;s the benefit. The operator can handle tasks like adding a replica or failing over the primary to one of the replicas. I could presumably do some of that with other tools on bare metal&#x2F;VMs (I can always shell-script things), but I&#x27;ve had a good experience with CloudNativePG&#x27;s operator. Likewise, as the author says, making day-2 operations easier is a big thing.<p>K8s does have some annoying amount of complexity, but it&#x27;s been nice overall.</text></comment> |
12,833,855 | 12,833,881 | 1 | 2 | 12,831,545 | train | <story><title>Open Letter to Tim Cook</title><url>https://petersphilo.org/2016/10/29/open-letter-to-tim-cook/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmeller</author><text>Apple built its PC business on the backs of creative professionals because they were among the few groups who thought Macs were worth more than $0.00, thanks to its superior experience with Adobe&#x27;s creative suite when compared to Windows.<p>Apple now has a dominant position in the PC market, not because they catered to creative professionals, but because they listened to their initial creative audience and focused on making their computers better.<p>Apple doesn&#x27;t focus on the Mac Pro because they want to abandon creatives, it is simply because the Mac Pro doesn&#x27;t enable any meaningful use-cases not served by the 5k iMac or its notebook line.<p>Form-factor, screen quality, battery life, weight, speed of I&#x2F;O, and all the other design goals the author dismisses, are perhaps the most important metrics meaningful for the current generation of laptop buyers, including professionals.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grzm</author><text><i>&quot;Apple doesn&#x27;t focus on the Mac Pro because they want to abandon creatives, it is simply because the Mac Pro doesn&#x27;t enable any meaningful use-cases not served by the 5k iMac or its notebook line.&quot;</i><p>Well said. This thought has been banging around in my head half-formed for the past couple of days. Thanks for expressing it so succinctly. I think this also answers why Apple has made the decision to limit&#x2F;remove expansion and upgrade options in their hardware.<p><i>&quot;Apple built its PC business on the backs of creative professionals because they were among the few groups who thought Macs were worth more than $0.00, thanks to its superior experience with Adobe&#x27;s creative suite when compared to Windows.&quot;</i><p>This idea of creatives being the core market for Apple during its early years is often floated. I&#x27;m not questioning its veracity, though I&#x27;m curious if anyone knows of references that backs this up with numbers or research? Education was a pretty big market early on as well. How do they compare?</text></comment> | <story><title>Open Letter to Tim Cook</title><url>https://petersphilo.org/2016/10/29/open-letter-to-tim-cook/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmeller</author><text>Apple built its PC business on the backs of creative professionals because they were among the few groups who thought Macs were worth more than $0.00, thanks to its superior experience with Adobe&#x27;s creative suite when compared to Windows.<p>Apple now has a dominant position in the PC market, not because they catered to creative professionals, but because they listened to their initial creative audience and focused on making their computers better.<p>Apple doesn&#x27;t focus on the Mac Pro because they want to abandon creatives, it is simply because the Mac Pro doesn&#x27;t enable any meaningful use-cases not served by the 5k iMac or its notebook line.<p>Form-factor, screen quality, battery life, weight, speed of I&#x2F;O, and all the other design goals the author dismisses, are perhaps the most important metrics meaningful for the current generation of laptop buyers, including professionals.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flukus</author><text>&gt; Apple now has a dominant position in the PC market, not because they catered to creative professionals, but because they listened to their initial creative audience and focused on making their computers better.<p>How are they at all dominant in the PC market?</text></comment> |
37,514,685 | 37,514,333 | 1 | 3 | 37,514,051 | train | <story><title>Rivers are rapidly warming, losing oxygen; aquatic life at risk, study finds</title><url>https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1001268</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hermitcrab</author><text>The British government privatised all the UK water companies some years ago. It turned out just about as well as you would expect. Turns out its much cheaper to pump shit into the rivers and risk the occasional paltry fine than to invest in infrastructure. Meanwhile you can load the water company with debt and pay massive dividends to the private equity companies and foreign investors that own the companies. And consumers have no choice, because each company is a monopoly. Marvellous.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rivers are rapidly warming, losing oxygen; aquatic life at risk, study finds</title><url>https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1001268</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>haltist</author><text>Yesterday I did some amateur science and measured how many cars pass through a relatively busy intersection during rush hour. I knew it was pretty bad and did some basic math to confirm that things are indeed very bad.<p>Expect things to continue to get worse. Fish stocks are already on the brink of collapse and I&#x27;m almost certain it will happen in my lifetime.</text></comment> |
15,747,535 | 15,745,222 | 1 | 3 | 15,744,420 | train | <story><title>Justice Department suing AT&T to block $85B bid for Time Warner</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/11/20/the-justice-department-just-sued-att-to-block-its-85-billion-bid-for-time-warner/?utm_term=.ae1463c2b8dd</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>The FCC loosened media ownership rules (a complete ban on owning a newspaper and TV&#x2F;radio station in the same market) that have no counterpart in most EU countries. The DOJ sued to block a merger that would get intense antitrust scrutiny in most EU countries. I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make.</text></item><item><author>swang</author><text>Hmm. FCC allows rules to let Sinclair Broadcasting expand to becoming a monopoly. OK! Net Neutrality? Possibly gone by next month.<p>AT&amp;T and Time Warner to merge together?: &quot;It would mean higher monthly television bills and fewer of the new, emerging innovative options that consumers are beginning to enjoy.&quot;<p>Yes I know the FCC is not the DOJ, or the FTC. Just seems like Republican-led departments and commissions can&#x27;t seem to get their story straight on whether mergers and fewer options are beneficial to customers or not.<p>I&#x27;m not for this merger. But certainly seems like Trump&#x27;s interference in this is probably going to udnermine any semblance of partiality by the DOJ.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>timthelion</author><text>Is europe a good example of perfection here? It seems to me that rules on media ownership are a good thing. Here in the Czech republic, our prime minister owns all but one major newspapers, two TV stations, and a radio station. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vergecampus.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;09&#x2F;andrej-babis-and-the-separation-of-media-and-state&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vergecampus.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;09&#x2F;andrej-babis-and-the-separat...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Justice Department suing AT&T to block $85B bid for Time Warner</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/11/20/the-justice-department-just-sued-att-to-block-its-85-billion-bid-for-time-warner/?utm_term=.ae1463c2b8dd</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>The FCC loosened media ownership rules (a complete ban on owning a newspaper and TV&#x2F;radio station in the same market) that have no counterpart in most EU countries. The DOJ sued to block a merger that would get intense antitrust scrutiny in most EU countries. I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make.</text></item><item><author>swang</author><text>Hmm. FCC allows rules to let Sinclair Broadcasting expand to becoming a monopoly. OK! Net Neutrality? Possibly gone by next month.<p>AT&amp;T and Time Warner to merge together?: &quot;It would mean higher monthly television bills and fewer of the new, emerging innovative options that consumers are beginning to enjoy.&quot;<p>Yes I know the FCC is not the DOJ, or the FTC. Just seems like Republican-led departments and commissions can&#x27;t seem to get their story straight on whether mergers and fewer options are beneficial to customers or not.<p>I&#x27;m not for this merger. But certainly seems like Trump&#x27;s interference in this is probably going to udnermine any semblance of partiality by the DOJ.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swang</author><text>What does the EU have to do with this?</text></comment> |
19,449,990 | 19,450,131 | 1 | 2 | 19,448,703 | train | <story><title>Understanding STIR/SHAKEN – New Anti-Robocalling Protocol</title><url>https://transnexus.com/whitepapers/understanding-stir-shaken/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Zarel</author><text>The worst phone spam is already illegal in the US. The problem is, in the current system, it&#x27;s impossible to figure out who&#x27;s doing it. That&#x27;s one of the things STIR&#x2F;SHAKEN is supposed to fix.</text></item><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>Instead of all these fancy technical counter-measures I think this really ought to be a matter of the law. Why not ban cold calls, like in Germany? Is there anyone on this planet who actually enjoys constant advertisement and harassment on their phone?<p>&gt;According to Sec. 7 (2) UWG; telephone calls to consumers for sales purposes are illegal if the calling company is not in possession of an explicit and effective declaration of consent by the consumer. If the call is made to another business, it is sufficient to prove presumptive consent.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>atoav</author><text>Law enforcement doesn’t seem to work then. On my German phone I received one (!) Spam call in 10 years, and that was a human who didn’t knew about the law and excused himself when I told him about it.<p>Sometimes I have the feeling that people in the US just accept a lot of what happens in their nation as unchangeable in a quite fatalistic way. Problems that are literally solved in nearly every other nation are frequently painted as unsolvable. Does this have to do with the role of the state?</text></comment> | <story><title>Understanding STIR/SHAKEN – New Anti-Robocalling Protocol</title><url>https://transnexus.com/whitepapers/understanding-stir-shaken/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Zarel</author><text>The worst phone spam is already illegal in the US. The problem is, in the current system, it&#x27;s impossible to figure out who&#x27;s doing it. That&#x27;s one of the things STIR&#x2F;SHAKEN is supposed to fix.</text></item><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>Instead of all these fancy technical counter-measures I think this really ought to be a matter of the law. Why not ban cold calls, like in Germany? Is there anyone on this planet who actually enjoys constant advertisement and harassment on their phone?<p>&gt;According to Sec. 7 (2) UWG; telephone calls to consumers for sales purposes are illegal if the calling company is not in possession of an explicit and effective declaration of consent by the consumer. If the call is made to another business, it is sufficient to prove presumptive consent.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tinus_hn</author><text>You can be 100% sure the billing system knows who’s paying for the call.</text></comment> |
27,021,759 | 27,012,968 | 1 | 2 | 27,009,843 | train | <story><title>What is Chia cryptocurrency and why is it bad news for hard drives?</title><url>https://www.tomsguide.com/news/what-is-chia-cryptocurrency-and-why-is-it-bad-news-for-hard-drives</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RealityVoid</author><text>I am... Suspicious of all the chia articles popping up on HN. I have not seen the same kind of buzz happening in other crypto spaces about it. And I am also suspicious about the claims that chia is the one that is such a threat to data storage supply, considering there are other crypto currencies with a similar approach.<p>Overall, I am inclined to say that this is a submarine and HN is falling for it.<p>Regardless, more to the point of the article, the argument and moral panic rings hollow. Chia just incentives other people to store data for people who want to store data. The place, overhead and mechanism of data retrieval is different, but, still, someone wants to store the data there and they pay for it. So how then is this more of a threat than cloud providers for example?<p>Later Edit: I mistook Chia as having a similar approach as Filecoin, but, on closer inspection, it seems that they do not store data people want they just store data to prove it&#x27;s stored and use that to distribute mining rewards. So I was wrong at this end. Still, I maintain my opinion this is a submarine.</text></item><item><author>dang</author><text>Recent related threads:<p><i>Thoughts on a “HDD shortage” from an industry insider</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27008295" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27008295</a> - May 2021 (106 comments)<p><i>SSD makers start warning that mining products like ChiaCoin will void warranty</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27001848" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27001848</a> - May 2021 (381 comments)<p><i>Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26975734" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26975734</a> - April 2021 (151 comments)<p><i>New Chia coin crypto with Proof of Space may create shortage of storage device</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26879278" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26879278</a> - April 2021 (19 comments)<p><i>Chia Blockchain mainnet successfully launched today at 14:00 UTC</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26515025" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26515025</a> - March 2021 (14 comments)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Your comment broke the site guidelines, which ask you not to post insinuations of astroturfing, shilling, etc., without evidence. Multiple articles showing up about a topic isn&#x27;t evidence of abuse; it&#x27;s perfectly normal. Any slightly unusual angle like the hard-drive thing is more than enough to explain a small flurry of articles.<p>&quot;<i>Please don&#x27;t post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you&#x27;re worried about abuse, email [email protected] and we&#x27;ll look at the data.</i>&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?sort=byDate&amp;dateRange=all&amp;type=comment&amp;storyText=false&amp;prefix=true&amp;page=0&amp;query=by:dang%20astroturf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?sort=byDate&amp;dateRange=all&amp;type=comme...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html</a><p>We have that rule because it&#x27;s extremely easy to fall into imagining this sort of thing based purely on a few data points one dislikes. In the absence of evidence, that&#x27;s likely what&#x27;s happening. Moreover, the submission histories of most of the accounts that posted those threads is evidence against what you said, and that information is public and trivial to check.</text></comment> | <story><title>What is Chia cryptocurrency and why is it bad news for hard drives?</title><url>https://www.tomsguide.com/news/what-is-chia-cryptocurrency-and-why-is-it-bad-news-for-hard-drives</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RealityVoid</author><text>I am... Suspicious of all the chia articles popping up on HN. I have not seen the same kind of buzz happening in other crypto spaces about it. And I am also suspicious about the claims that chia is the one that is such a threat to data storage supply, considering there are other crypto currencies with a similar approach.<p>Overall, I am inclined to say that this is a submarine and HN is falling for it.<p>Regardless, more to the point of the article, the argument and moral panic rings hollow. Chia just incentives other people to store data for people who want to store data. The place, overhead and mechanism of data retrieval is different, but, still, someone wants to store the data there and they pay for it. So how then is this more of a threat than cloud providers for example?<p>Later Edit: I mistook Chia as having a similar approach as Filecoin, but, on closer inspection, it seems that they do not store data people want they just store data to prove it&#x27;s stored and use that to distribute mining rewards. So I was wrong at this end. Still, I maintain my opinion this is a submarine.</text></item><item><author>dang</author><text>Recent related threads:<p><i>Thoughts on a “HDD shortage” from an industry insider</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27008295" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27008295</a> - May 2021 (106 comments)<p><i>SSD makers start warning that mining products like ChiaCoin will void warranty</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27001848" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27001848</a> - May 2021 (381 comments)<p><i>Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26975734" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26975734</a> - April 2021 (151 comments)<p><i>New Chia coin crypto with Proof of Space may create shortage of storage device</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26879278" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26879278</a> - April 2021 (19 comments)<p><i>Chia Blockchain mainnet successfully launched today at 14:00 UTC</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26515025" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26515025</a> - March 2021 (14 comments)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matkoniecz</author><text>&gt; Chia just incentives other people to store data for people who want to store data.<p>This is untrue, Chia requires wasting storage space to store pointless garbage.</text></comment> |
14,071,627 | 14,071,130 | 1 | 2 | 14,070,820 | train | <story><title>Uber banned in all of Italy</title><url>http://mashable.com/2017/04/07/uber-blocked-italy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>register</author><text>I see a great degree of superficiality in all comments.
Uber has been banned for breaking the italian law, period.
That the law for taxi and similar services might be too much restrictive and could be improved in favour of the market is a completely different matter.
In Italy there are precise rules regarding where and how you can pick up passengers and Uber is violating them.
This is why it was banned. The sentence even states this explicitly: that the duty of the magister is to apply the current law and not the enter in the merits of how it could be improved for the benefit of the market. Did anybody read the sentence before commenting?<p>Uber has been also banned in Berlin and Amburg and I haven&#x27;t seen any similar comment here. I would be very curios to understand why.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Xylakant</author><text>Uber has been banned in Berlin and Hamburg for operating an illegal taxi service without applying for the required papers. The were breaking the law, simple as that. It&#x27;s a thing Uber likes to do, it&#x27;s just not working as well in the EU as in other regions of the world.</text></comment> | <story><title>Uber banned in all of Italy</title><url>http://mashable.com/2017/04/07/uber-blocked-italy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>register</author><text>I see a great degree of superficiality in all comments.
Uber has been banned for breaking the italian law, period.
That the law for taxi and similar services might be too much restrictive and could be improved in favour of the market is a completely different matter.
In Italy there are precise rules regarding where and how you can pick up passengers and Uber is violating them.
This is why it was banned. The sentence even states this explicitly: that the duty of the magister is to apply the current law and not the enter in the merits of how it could be improved for the benefit of the market. Did anybody read the sentence before commenting?<p>Uber has been also banned in Berlin and Amburg and I haven&#x27;t seen any similar comment here. I would be very curios to understand why.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Markoff</author><text>as far as i am aware nobody voted for Uber in last elections in Italy to be the one changing the laws<p>if you wanna do business you must follow to law, if you don&#x27;t like it then either change law or go back to US where are people apparently more relaxed about breaking law, but Stilton is not do business while breaking law</text></comment> |
12,067,255 | 12,066,973 | 1 | 3 | 12,066,405 | train | <story><title>A Medical Mystery of the Best Kind: Major Diseases Are in Decline</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/upshot/a-medical-mystery-of-the-best-kind-major-diseases-are-in-decline.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>magila</author><text>On the other hand, autoimmune diseases have been increasing in prevalence over the last century. While these diseases are rarely immediately fatal, in severe cases they can have a major impact on quality of life. Onset often occurs in early adulthood so the cost of treatment over a lifetime can be extremely high. The usual treatment, immunosuppressive therapy, also has serious risks of its own.<p>While there has been much progress on finding new treatments, their scope has been limited to new and creative ways of suppressing the immune system. There are a multitude of theories which attempt to explain the causes of autoimmune diseases, but we seem to be quite far from truly understanding them.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Medical Mystery of the Best Kind: Major Diseases Are in Decline</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/upshot/a-medical-mystery-of-the-best-kind-major-diseases-are-in-decline.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lordnacho</author><text>Speculation:<p>- People have become more aware of the risk factors, and behave accordingly. Awareness would be connected to prevalence but have a lagged effect.<p>- Deadly diseases cause evolutionary responses. Perhaps a disproportionate number of people with predisposition to these illnesses passed away before having offspring.<p>- Reporting bias? While an illness looms large in the minds of the medical community, doctors are more likely to either wrongly attribute to the illness (false positive), or do false negatives less often.<p>- Highly speculative: combined effects are non-linear. I don&#x27;t know what they use to do these studies, but typically you hear something along the lines of &quot;for every x, there&#x27;s m*x effect&quot;, which makes things sounds nice and linear. Maybe better prevention and better treatment does better than either on its own summed up, and so you won&#x27;t be able to find the &quot;reason&quot; by splitting into each feature.</text></comment> |
14,545,559 | 14,545,410 | 1 | 2 | 14,544,735 | train | <story><title>Money can be stolen from an Uber account</title><url>https://unlikekinds.com/t/your-money-can-be-stolen-from-your-uber-account</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Shivetya</author><text>Steam has a litany of disclaimers to block refunds. Even games dropped by developers don&#x27;t matter to Steam. I had a few hours registered to a game I could never get to work beyond a few turns but since I &quot;played&quot; it I was not entitled to a refund.<p>I really dislike digital distribution of games and software on this point. While some Steam games I can run offline I am not sure if all of them can be. Plus how do I reinstall?<p>It is a sad state of affairs when being a buyer on ebay is safer than buying from Steam</text></item><item><author>idbehold</author><text>It seems like this behavior should also be reported to the credit card companies. In the case of Steam, it seems like what you should do is have the credit card company charge back ALL the purchases you made if they ban your account.</text></item><item><author>JohnTHaller</author><text>It&#x27;s also worth noting that if you do a chargeback, a company like Uber will often block your account and phone from using their services. Doing a chargeback against Steam for instance and they will ban you, preventing you from playing games you&#x27;ve paid for (&quot;leased&quot; more accurately). So, it&#x27;s important to be careful about doing chargebacks unless you&#x27;re sure the company you&#x27;re doing a chargeback against is one you never wish to do business with again.</text></item><item><author>vxNsr</author><text>In general in these cases, if it&#x27;s a credit card just do a charge back and let Uber deal with the fallout. no need to bother trying to get Uber to make it right, your credit card company will be much more interested in knowing that Uber failed to safeguard their clients card info. To many charge backs can result in higher processing fees so companies will do everything they can do avoid that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Silhouette</author><text>It always surprises me that I&#x27;ve never seen anyone take real legal action against a platform like Steam over this sort of policy. You can put almost anything you want in your terms of service, but in most places if it&#x27;s blatantly one-sided and unreasonable there&#x27;s a chance that courts will strike it down, particularly in areas with relatively strong consumer protection laws like Europe. Something like blocking access to previous purchases because of an unrelated dispute seems about as one-sided and unreasonable as you could get; it&#x27;s essentially no better than the kind of anticompetitive practices that are explicitly illegal in various other contexts.<p>I was also under the impression that the card networks frowned upon trying to prevent cardholders from exercising any chargeback right they have with their card. Then again, I have business interests that accept payments via these card networks and I&#x27;ve never even seen the full terms that we supposedly agreed to on the merchant side, so I don&#x27;t know how I&#x27;d check even though we&#x27;re presumably subject to the same rules, whatever they are.</text></comment> | <story><title>Money can be stolen from an Uber account</title><url>https://unlikekinds.com/t/your-money-can-be-stolen-from-your-uber-account</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Shivetya</author><text>Steam has a litany of disclaimers to block refunds. Even games dropped by developers don&#x27;t matter to Steam. I had a few hours registered to a game I could never get to work beyond a few turns but since I &quot;played&quot; it I was not entitled to a refund.<p>I really dislike digital distribution of games and software on this point. While some Steam games I can run offline I am not sure if all of them can be. Plus how do I reinstall?<p>It is a sad state of affairs when being a buyer on ebay is safer than buying from Steam</text></item><item><author>idbehold</author><text>It seems like this behavior should also be reported to the credit card companies. In the case of Steam, it seems like what you should do is have the credit card company charge back ALL the purchases you made if they ban your account.</text></item><item><author>JohnTHaller</author><text>It&#x27;s also worth noting that if you do a chargeback, a company like Uber will often block your account and phone from using their services. Doing a chargeback against Steam for instance and they will ban you, preventing you from playing games you&#x27;ve paid for (&quot;leased&quot; more accurately). So, it&#x27;s important to be careful about doing chargebacks unless you&#x27;re sure the company you&#x27;re doing a chargeback against is one you never wish to do business with again.</text></item><item><author>vxNsr</author><text>In general in these cases, if it&#x27;s a credit card just do a charge back and let Uber deal with the fallout. no need to bother trying to get Uber to make it right, your credit card company will be much more interested in knowing that Uber failed to safeguard their clients card info. To many charge backs can result in higher processing fees so companies will do everything they can do avoid that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teh_klev</author><text>&gt; I had a few hours registered to a game I could never get to work beyond a few turns but since I &quot;played&quot; it I was not entitled to a refund.<p>Cough, ahem, No Man&#x27;s Sky...<p>According to Steam I&#x27;d played around 40 hours, but in reality most likely &lt;10 hours active and stupidly left the game idling a couple of nights which racked up the hours.<p>I tried to get a refund from Steam and was refused, I then tried a charge back from PayPal and Steam stepped in and more or less told me that if I continue down this road I&#x27;ll be locked out of all my games.<p>A few lessons learned:<p>1. Don&#x27;t pre-purchase games<p>2. Wait a couple of weeks for real gamer reviews<p>3. Avoid Steam&#x2F;digital distributions for higher value games.<p>This has certainly soured me from buying anything costing more than a few quid on Steam.</text></comment> |
17,707,803 | 17,707,881 | 1 | 2 | 17,706,551 | train | <story><title>EPA is allowing asbestos back into manufacturing</title><url>https://archpaper.com/2018/08/epa-asbestos-manufacturing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmix</author><text>It does say it&#x27;s only being approved in special cases. I wouldn&#x27;t expect the building industry to suddenly start using it again.<p>How many of those 3000 are a legacy of the previous eras misunderstanding of the chemical? I doubt any company would ignore that risk and produce a product that put people at a direct and unknown risk, especially given the legal liability since we now know the full risks of the chemical and the alternatives the market has long ago developed in every category.</text></item><item><author>nemacol</author><text>Having just lost a father-in-law to mesothelioma (June 2018), this makes me incredibly sad.<p>I understand this is not an actual rule change and blah blah blah. 3,000 people are diagnosed with mesothelioma each year.<p>What a slow and horrific way to go. Slowly losing your breath. Lungs filling with fluid and being rushed off to ER to drain. Endless breathing treatments. Never sleeping more than an hour without waking up coughing. I am sure many of you are aware the treatments can be just as painful as the illness itself.<p>The man I knew when through all of this and more spread over a decade. 2 lung lobectomy surgeries. Chemo. Radiation. Misc corrective surgeries. Not to mention the hassles of the American healthcare system, doctors, lawyers, bills, and enough paperwork to fill a small office building.<p>3000 people a year.<p>I can only understand new deployments of asbestos if they are...
&quot;perfectly safe&quot;
Saving thousands of lives
There is no alternative.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrguyorama</author><text>&gt;I doubt any company would ignore that risk and produce a product that put people at a direct and unknown risk<p>Those companies did exactly that! Asbestos companies knew the dangers internally. It&#x27;s no different than cigarette companies suppressing the science of how smoking is dangerous</text></comment> | <story><title>EPA is allowing asbestos back into manufacturing</title><url>https://archpaper.com/2018/08/epa-asbestos-manufacturing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmix</author><text>It does say it&#x27;s only being approved in special cases. I wouldn&#x27;t expect the building industry to suddenly start using it again.<p>How many of those 3000 are a legacy of the previous eras misunderstanding of the chemical? I doubt any company would ignore that risk and produce a product that put people at a direct and unknown risk, especially given the legal liability since we now know the full risks of the chemical and the alternatives the market has long ago developed in every category.</text></item><item><author>nemacol</author><text>Having just lost a father-in-law to mesothelioma (June 2018), this makes me incredibly sad.<p>I understand this is not an actual rule change and blah blah blah. 3,000 people are diagnosed with mesothelioma each year.<p>What a slow and horrific way to go. Slowly losing your breath. Lungs filling with fluid and being rushed off to ER to drain. Endless breathing treatments. Never sleeping more than an hour without waking up coughing. I am sure many of you are aware the treatments can be just as painful as the illness itself.<p>The man I knew when through all of this and more spread over a decade. 2 lung lobectomy surgeries. Chemo. Radiation. Misc corrective surgeries. Not to mention the hassles of the American healthcare system, doctors, lawyers, bills, and enough paperwork to fill a small office building.<p>3000 people a year.<p>I can only understand new deployments of asbestos if they are...
&quot;perfectly safe&quot;
Saving thousands of lives
There is no alternative.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nemacol</author><text>The cases per year are going down and the average age of diagnosis is 69. So you are right in that most of this is legacy.<p>But we know now and knew then that it was dangerous.<p>Much like the radium girls in the early 1900&#x27;s - where the people delivering the paint would wear leaded protective equipment and then management would watch (and encourage) the girls lick the paint brushes to keep the tip pointed. They knew it was bad. They just didn&#x27;t give a fuck.</text></comment> |
9,129,039 | 9,129,029 | 1 | 2 | 9,126,734 | train | <story><title>Document Storage Gymnastics with Postgres</title><url>http://rob.conery.io/2015/03/01/document-storage-gymnastics-in-postgres/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wekeroad%2FEeKc+%28Rob+Conery%29</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>s_kilk</author><text>&gt; predictable performance<p>Hmm, maybe.<p>Where I work we use Postgres a lot, and the performance (for our workload) can only be described as &quot;brittle&quot;. We often see problems whereby making slight syntactic changes to queries will cause confusion in the query planner and performance will go through the floor.<p>Getting around this often involves trying out a few semantically equlivalent ways of phrasing a query and trying to find one that doesn&#x27;t suck, then just remembering that for next time.<p>Another problem we&#x27;ve had is that after a while the query planner can go nuts suddenly, making bad decisions based on accumulated stats. It&#x27;s fun watching what is usually a two-second query last multiple hours because the query planner has lost its mind.<p>Anywhere else I&#x27;d claim that this is down to incompetence, but we have two senior engineers with multiple decades of DB experience, and even they end up tearing their hair out over postgres performance.<p>Overall, I like postgres, a lot, and I&#x27;d choose it over MongoDB and other noSql solutions for most workloads, but it&#x27;s performance can be very hit-or-miss compared to other (proprietary) relational databases.<p>TLDR: postgres performance is usually pretty good, but in some cases can be brittle, resulting in a lot of effort spent needling the query planner into doing the right thing. The effort spent is much more than would be spent with some other (unfortunately proprietary) databases.</text></item><item><author>rcoder</author><text>PostgreSQL displays an amazing and rare combination in _any_ software, much less a free (beer&#x2F;libre) product: reliable, predictable performance and usability for standard workloads combined with an extensible, flexible platform for experimentation and development.<p>Rock-solid &quot;classic&quot; OLTP database? Check. Rich geospatial data platform? You betcha. Structured document store? That too. Pluggable storage engines and column stores? Why not!<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong: there are definitely workloads for which Postgres is a poor choice. Its replication features are far behind MySQL, much less its pricey commercial competitors and the more reliable NoSQL options (Cassandra, HBase, etc.). There&#x27;s also been little work that I know of* to optimize the storage engine for SSDs. (*- I&#x27;d love to be learn this is just my ignorance and someone is really focused on large-scale SSD-backed Postgres deploys and tuning. Links&#x2F;references appreciated.)<p>If you can work within those constraints though it&#x27;s an awesome product.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomiko_nakamura</author><text>BTW I wonder what you mean by &quot;accumulated stats&quot; ...<p>Regarding your senior engineers - maybe they&#x27;re competent, maybe not.<p>But most importantly, the experience from one database is often difficult to transfer to a different database. For example I often work with people coming from the Oracle world, and they often apply things that work on Oracle but fail on PostgreSQL. And don&#x27;t use the advanced cool stuff in PostgreSQL.</text></comment> | <story><title>Document Storage Gymnastics with Postgres</title><url>http://rob.conery.io/2015/03/01/document-storage-gymnastics-in-postgres/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wekeroad%2FEeKc+%28Rob+Conery%29</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>s_kilk</author><text>&gt; predictable performance<p>Hmm, maybe.<p>Where I work we use Postgres a lot, and the performance (for our workload) can only be described as &quot;brittle&quot;. We often see problems whereby making slight syntactic changes to queries will cause confusion in the query planner and performance will go through the floor.<p>Getting around this often involves trying out a few semantically equlivalent ways of phrasing a query and trying to find one that doesn&#x27;t suck, then just remembering that for next time.<p>Another problem we&#x27;ve had is that after a while the query planner can go nuts suddenly, making bad decisions based on accumulated stats. It&#x27;s fun watching what is usually a two-second query last multiple hours because the query planner has lost its mind.<p>Anywhere else I&#x27;d claim that this is down to incompetence, but we have two senior engineers with multiple decades of DB experience, and even they end up tearing their hair out over postgres performance.<p>Overall, I like postgres, a lot, and I&#x27;d choose it over MongoDB and other noSql solutions for most workloads, but it&#x27;s performance can be very hit-or-miss compared to other (proprietary) relational databases.<p>TLDR: postgres performance is usually pretty good, but in some cases can be brittle, resulting in a lot of effort spent needling the query planner into doing the right thing. The effort spent is much more than would be spent with some other (unfortunately proprietary) databases.</text></item><item><author>rcoder</author><text>PostgreSQL displays an amazing and rare combination in _any_ software, much less a free (beer&#x2F;libre) product: reliable, predictable performance and usability for standard workloads combined with an extensible, flexible platform for experimentation and development.<p>Rock-solid &quot;classic&quot; OLTP database? Check. Rich geospatial data platform? You betcha. Structured document store? That too. Pluggable storage engines and column stores? Why not!<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong: there are definitely workloads for which Postgres is a poor choice. Its replication features are far behind MySQL, much less its pricey commercial competitors and the more reliable NoSQL options (Cassandra, HBase, etc.). There&#x27;s also been little work that I know of* to optimize the storage engine for SSDs. (*- I&#x27;d love to be learn this is just my ignorance and someone is really focused on large-scale SSD-backed Postgres deploys and tuning. Links&#x2F;references appreciated.)<p>If you can work within those constraints though it&#x27;s an awesome product.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomiko_nakamura</author><text>The only response I have to that is &quot;talk to developers on the mailing list&quot; (either pgsql-performance or pgsql-hackers).<p>Maybe it&#x27;s possible to improve the planning - maybe your queries are uncommon &#x2F; difficult to estimate &#x2F; running into a thinko in the planner. I don&#x27;t know.</text></comment> |
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